Posted on 06/18/2004 9:32:32 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
American GI Forum convention is today
There is a lot in store for those attending the annual American GI Forum convention in Corpus Christi today and Saturday.
Today's events begin at 9 a.m. in the Omni Bayfront Hotel's A and B ballrooms, the same rooms where the banquet featuring the keynote speaker, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, will be held. The banquet begins at 7 p.m. and is $75 per person.
Today also features a speaker from the Texas Workforce Commission and, at 11:30 a.m., children from the Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Child Care Center will perform a play about the life of Dr. Hector P. GarciaSanchez, in Iraq, will appear in a live video teleconference to give his speech.
Sanchez will call three members of the military from Corpus Christi to his office to let them speak with their families, at the banquet, said Ram Chavez, commander of the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Founding Chapter of the American GI Forum and state commander.
"(Sanchez) is our highest ranking (Hispanic) military commander right now," Chavez said. "We're still working on it - right now we have video and audio of him, but he will only hear us."
Sanchez, a Rio Grande City native and a graduate of Texas A&I University, has been in Iraq since April 2003, and according to friends and family members, will return to his command of the Army's V Corps in Heidelberg, Germany, once he is replaced in Iraq.
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