Veterans Day Salute
Pensacola Military Authors provided a waffle brunch to feed Veterans following the 2014 Veterans Day Parade along with book signings featuring some of our local military writers.
Student Ambassadors from the Newpoint Pensacola Academy served brunch to over 500 veterans. Thanks to Robert Nicholson and Shauna Taylor for preparing 505 waffles, Polina, Vlad and Igor Mokrenko for preparing the hash browns with sausage and Dianna Roberts of CBTR for organizing the event in collaboration with Billie and Robert Nicholson of Rusty Buggy Enterprises and Jim Sanborne of Cumulus Radio.
Military fiction writer, Kevin Miller, Nelson Ottenhausen (also publisher at Patriot Media, Inc.), Gulf Coast Authors: Dr. Sandra Davis and her husband, author, Charlie Davis; Ernie Webb, Norman Meeker and Billie and Robert Nicholson donated a portion of their book sales to veteran groups.
In addition, under our tents were the Pensacola Young Marines and the Escambia Chapter of Reading is Fundamental, a children’s literacy program.
Pearl Harbor Veterans Feted
Special guests included Pearl Harbor Survivor, Frank Emond, who we learned has a grand son who teaches world culture to some of the students helping out at the food kiosk. In addition, Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima survivor, William Braddock was thrilled to keep company with student escorts as they toured the tents following the parade. He told his student ambassadors with a grin, “My favorite part in Pearl Harbor Honor Flight: One Last Goodbye is page 20 – my story, and where my sister comments about how my mother prayed for me every day.”