(Press release)

FORT HOOD, Texas – Central Texas Congressmen will join Fort Hood officials and organizers of this week’s Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) seminar to host a special ceremony tomorrow (Sunday, August 16) during which children who’ve lost a parent in Operations Iraqi or Enduring Freedom will be presented Presidential Gold Medals of Remembrance. Citizens of Central Texas are invited to attend as well.

U.S. Congressman Chet Edwards (D-TX), representing the 17th Congressional District of Texas, and Congressman John Carter (R-TX), representing the 31st Congressional District, will present more than 75 medals at the 9 a.m. ceremony to Gold Star children. They represent roughly half the 150 children and 200 adults who took part in this week’s inaugural TAPS seminar on Fort Hood.

The ceremony was developed by the White House Commission on Remembrance which has partnered with Families United to host similar events in the nation’s capital and across the country. This event is dedicated to our country’s Fallen Heroes and their families, but the public is most welcome to attend.

Fort Hood’s Sunday morning ceremony begins at 9 a.m. on the Resiliency Campus under two large tents just behind the Spiritual Fitness Center (former Comanche Chapel) at Battalion Ave. & 33rd St.