I have not seen anything in the news reports about this, but we DID see five or six Marines in their dress uniforms enter the Red Carpet are with their wives.Red-carpet duty for Marine at Oscars
RED CARPET READY:
Brian and Kayla Aria will be attending the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.
Jim Schultz
Record Searchlight
Photo courtesy of Helen Chambers
February 27, 2004 — 2:07 a.m.
Like millions, Helen Chambers of Happy Valley will be tuned in with her husband and family to Sunday's glitzy Academy Awards ceremony on TV.But it won't be the Hollywood stars, or the ceremony itself, that will command her full attention.
For her, the real stars of the night will be her son, Brian Aria, and his wife Kayla, both 20.
Aria, a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, will be spiffily decked out in his dress blues representing the Marine Corps at the Academy Awards and will be accompanied by his wife, an Enterprise High School graduate.
"He's pretty excited," said Chambers, 44. "He thinks it's pretty neat."
So does mom and her husband, Scott Chamness.
Details are still on the vague and secretive side, but Chambers said her son, an Iraq War veteran who was selected by the Marine Corps for the prestigious Oscar night honor, will be stationed somewhere along the red carpet outside the Kodak Theater in full view of the TV cameras and paparazzi...
I had a sign that said:
"SEMPER FI,
OSCAR!"
I shouted out, "Hey, Marine!" - and they looked over our way and smiled.
At least one of the women in their group took a photograph of my sign.