| Event: | God and Country Celebration - Great Hills Baptist Church |
| Date: | 04-Jul-03 |
| Location: | Great Hills Baptist Church, Austin Texas |
| Description: | We arrived around 6AM and began setting up the displays. We
were also served a very nice breakfast consisting of breakfast tacos,
scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon etc.... The first service began around 8AM.
This service consisted of a patriotic video honoring the men and women of
our armed forces. Members of all services took their spaces up on stage
while their respective hymns were being played. In the middle of all this
members of the Austin SWAT team rappelled down from the rafters in full
gear.
At the end of the show the Marine Corp hymn was played and a group from the Admiral Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War (which included me) re-enacted the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima. After this show the church had their regular service. When the service ended the crowd mingled around our displays as the attendees for the second service were just arriving. We were fed once again before the beginning of the second service. The second service was a carbon copy of the first one. After the second service we once again mingled with the crowd amongst our displays. Around 1PM the crowd had dispersed and we began taking down our displays. Oh, and we were fed a third meal around this time. |
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| Ryan S from San Antonio has his beautiful '42 staff car on display | John K's MB | The flag raising re-enactment. John K is second from the left, in front, with the M1 strapped on his back. | ||
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| Talking with the crowd between shows. That's John K on the left along with Mike Lebens who is an assistant curator at the Nimitz Museum. We are answering questions about a BC-611 Handy Talkie. | An overhead view of the display area. John's MB is on the left next to the tents. To the right you can see a GPW owned by Fred Kager out of Fredericksburg. Just outside the doors in the distance is a '41 Ford staff car owned by Ryan Schroeder of La Vernia. Notice that not only are we inside with air conditioning but so are our vehicles and displays. | |||