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DESTROYER ESCORT SAILOR ASSOCIATION MEETS IN NKY

Fort Mitchell, KY/August 27, 2008—About 125 sailors from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War, will meet September 8-11 at the Drawbridge Inn. The World War II DE’s played an integral role in protecting US ships from submarines.

The Destroyer Escort Sailor Association (DESA, www.desausa.org) will celebrate and remember the successes of these small, relatively slow warships designed to be used to escort merchant marine convoys. The escorts also provided protection against aircraft and smaller attack vessels employed in this application. The US built roughly 563 destroyer escorts.

The highlight of the group’s meeting with be a memorial service Thursday morning, September 11 from 9:00-9:45 a.m. at Yeoman’s Hall in the hotel. The service will feature a performance of Taps by Larry DuPree a Cincinnati native who is part of Bugles Across America (www.buglesacrossamerica.org). Bugles Across America now has over 5000 bugler volunteers located in all 50 states and growing number overseas.

While here, DESA members will also visit the Creation Museum, Hofbraùhaus Newport and will sail the Ohio River aboard BB Riverboats.

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 2007 was $325 million.