SAVING PRIVATE RYAN MILITARY GROUP HOLDING ANNUAL REUNION IN NKY
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SAVING PRIVATE RYAN MILITARY GROUP HOLDING ANNUAL REUNION IN NKY
Fort Mitchell, KY/May 31, 2007—For the second straight year, the Drawbridge Inn will host the 32nd Annual 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment Association (PIRA), the same group on which the story Saving Private Ryan was based.
The reunion will be held June 13-17, and will include a formal time for veterans to share oral histories of their experiences at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, June 15th.
Other highlights include a visit to Hofbräuhaus Newport that evening and the finale Saturday evening the 16th—a Memorial banquet at 6 p.m., which includes a military color guard, inspirational speaker Gary Griesser, dancing and live entertainment.
PIRA is the first 1 Airborne Forces unit in the 1 United States Military. It has currently been re-formed into the 4th Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (ABN), located in 1 Fort Richardson, Alaska, to serve as a strategic front to the 1 Department of Defense's Pacific Command and is part of the newest 1 Airborne Forces division in existence since World War II. It is also part of the first 1 Airborne division to be west of the Mississippi River.
The mission of the Northern Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau is that of an aggressive sales, marketing, service and informational organization whose primary responsibility is to positively impact the Northern Kentucky economy through conventions, meetings and visitor expenditures. The direct economic impact of visitors’ spending in Campbell, Kenton and Boone counties in 2006 was $263 million.
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