{"id":10072,"date":"2012-02-17T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=10072"},"modified":"2012-02-17T00:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T06:49:49","slug":"the-statues-of-patriots-park-to-honor-soldiers-of-fort-campbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2012\/02\/17\/the-statues-of-patriots-park-to-honor-soldiers-of-fort-campbell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Statues of Patriots Park\u201d To Honor Soldiers Of Fort Campbell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-107641\" title=\"Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ccvb-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce\" width=\"256\" height=\"74\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> \u2013 At a special called meeting of the Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Military Affairs (MAC) Committee on Thursday, Jim Durrett, Chamber Second Vice-Chairman, presented the concept for the \u201cThe Statues of Patriots Park\u201d project.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_108104\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/statues-presentation.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108104\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108104\" title=\"Military Affairs Committee Chairman, Jeff Truitt and Chamber Second Vice-Chairman, Jim Durrett, present the \u201cStatues of Patriots Park\u201d project to a group of MAC members on Thursday morning.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/statues-presentation-480x377.jpg\" alt=\"Military Affairs Committee Chairman, Jeff Truitt and Chamber Second Vice-Chairman, Jim Durrett, present the \u201cStatues of Patriots Park\u201d project to a group of MAC members on Thursday morning.\" width=\"480\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Military Affairs Committee Chairman, Jeff Truitt and Chamber Second Vice-Chairman, Jim Durrett, present the \u201cStatues of Patriots Park\u201d project to a group of MAC members on Thursday morning.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->The Statues project will serve as a representation of the individuals who serve and have served at Fort Campbell. The display, to be situated at the south end of Patriots Park, will be made up of nine Corteen steel statues depicting soldiers in various military occupational specialties.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to make Patriots park a special place that reflects the community\u2019s gratitude toward the men and women of Fort Campbell.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/statues-model.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-108106\" title=\"At the Thursday MAC meeting, a scale model was presented depicting the \u201cStatues of Patriots Park\u201d project.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/statues-model-133x200.jpg\" alt=\"At the Thursday MAC meeting, a scale model was presented depicting the \u201cStatues of Patriots Park\u201d project.\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>\u201cThis is a project that has been in the works for several years, and I am pleased to announce today that we have created this concept and are ready to begin aggressively raising funds to have this ready for the public to enjoy as soon as possible,\u201d said Durrett.<\/p>\n<p>Dex Imaging has generously donated the first $10,000 to begin project development and promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in donating to the Statues campaign can make checks out to \u201cThe Statues of Patriots Park\u201d.<\/p>\n<h4>Mail To:<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Aspire Clarksville Foundation<\/strong><br \/>\n25 Jefferson Street<br \/>\nSuite 300<br \/>\nClarksville, TN 37040<\/p>\n<p>The Aspire Foundation will serve as the 501(C)3 non-profit for this project and all donations are tax deductible.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Jim Durrett at 931.920.1552.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN \u2013 At a special called meeting of the Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Military Affairs (MAC) Committee on Thursday, Jim Durrett, Chamber Second Vice-Chairman, presented the concept for the \u201cThe Statues of Patriots Park\u201d project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[12825,1675,12820,825,12824,1233,12822,8834,1373,12823,12821],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-2Cs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10074,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10072\/revisions\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}