Salute Our Troops
Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival takes this opportunity to salute our men and women in, or formerly in, uniform in military service to our country.
This page is dedicated to these men and women -- currently serving on Active, Reserve, or National Guard duty at home or abroad; our Veterans; and those who have answered the Final Roll Call.
To submit a name for inclusion on this page, please contact the Freedom Festival office at 319.365.8313 or email russ@freedomfestival.com. In the interests of the safety of active duty personnel regardless of where they are in the world, we will not publish duty stations or country.
Active, Reserve, or National Guard Duty
- Justin Molumby, U.S. Army Reserves
- Kyle M. Bergen, U.S. Marine Corps
- Kyle Rusk, U.S. Army National Guard
- Riley Wunder, U.S. Army National Guard
- Scott Gray, U.S. Army
- Mathew Rowell, U.S. Army, Wounded in Action
- Kyle Stade, U.S. Army National Guard
- Derek M. Boots, U.S. Marine Corps
- Marc Ayala, U.S. Air Force, ANG
- Nicholas Kovatch, U.S. Air Force
- Sean M. DeLany, U.S. Army
- Jonathan G. Sieck, U.S. Army
- Daniel J. Kinion, U.S. Marine Corps
- Kurtis C. Kinion, U.S. Marine Corps
- Anthony J. Vandersee, U.S. Air Force
- Lucas Shull, U.S. Marine Corps
- Emily Shull, U.S. Marine Corps
- Samuel Shull, U.S. Marine Corps
- Bret M. Vollbracht, U.S. Army
- Benjamin C. Chambers, U.S. Army
- David K Carmody, U.S. Army Reserves
- Curtis R. Bartz, U.S. Marine Corps
- Christopher D. Brinkmann, U.S. Navy Reserves
- Jesse Pink, U.S. Air Force
- Gerry Gibson, U.S. Air Force
- Chris Stephens, U.S. Air Force
- Ryan Hemphill, U.S. Air Force
- Josh Denniston, U.S. Air Force
- Ryan Moran, U.S. Air Force
- Rob Mathis, U.S. Air Force
- Matthew E. Mullesch, U.S. Air Force
- Kenneth V. Holvenstot, U.S. Marine Corps
- Adam Schweitzer, U.S. Army Reserves
- Joshua Henderson, U.S. Marine Corps
- Harmand R. Weeks, U.S. Army
- Scott E. Nieman, U.S. Army
- Gavin F. Palma, U.S. Army National Guard
- Trever Rhines, U.S. Army
- Courtney Peterson, National Guard
- Lucas Darling, National Guard
- Adam Hopp, National Guard
- Damien F. Pickart, U.S. Air Force
- Kallie M. Griffin, U.S. Army Reserve
- Kevin Rammelsberg, U.S. Army Reserve
- John Roloson, U.S. Army Reserve
- David Weir, U.S. Army Reserve
- Cari Jo Laue, U.S. Marine Corps
- Adam Piper, U.S. Army
- Brian Hoffnagle, U.S. Marine Corps
- Ronald Hartwig, U.S. Air Force, ANG
- Andrea Brandon, U.S. Army
- Scott Gray, U.S. Army
- Kirk Gray, U.S. Air Force
- Josef N. Hejda, U.S. Army
- Shane Lewis, U.S. Air Force
- Kaleb Hogan, U.S. Army
- Kain Schilling, U.S. Army, Wounded in Action
- Louie Martinez, U.S. Army
- Bryan D. Kearney, U.S. Marine Corps
- Justin D. Williams, U.S. Navy
- Kristin N. Wilhelm, U.S. Army Reserve
- Jonathon Albert, U.S. Army, Wounded in Action
- Robert W. Strasburger, U.S. Navy
- Jeremy Drane, U.S. Navy
Veterans
- Timothy A. Bergen, U.S. Marine Corps
- Gerald V. Sill, U.S. Army
- Donald D. Sill, U.S. Army
- Phil Christian, U.S. Navy, Vietnam
- Doug Keenan, U.S. Navy
- Steve Davis, U.S. Army
- Kathy Davis, U.S. Army
- Gary Masbruch, U.S. Army, Vietnam
- Brian W. Youker, U.S. Army
- Michael Shull, U.S. Marine Corps
- Neil Polking, U.S. Army, Korea
- Charles W. Akers, U.S. Army, WWII
- Richard C. Hartgrave, U.S. Navy, Korea & Vietnam
- Ed Joyner, U.S. Army, WWII
- Don Arnold, U.S. Marine Corps & U.S. Army
- Sam Schweitzer, U.S. Marine Corps
- Verna Schweitzer, U.S. Marine Corps
- Jerry D. Bascom, Jr., U.S. Air Force
- Joe Skinner, Korea
- David Martin, U.S. Marine Corps
- Harmand W. Weeks, U.S. Navy, Retired
- Ryan D. Long, U.S. Army National Guard, Iraq
- Ted Stacey, U.S. Air Force, Retired
- Nancy Stacey, U.S. Navy
- Robert C. Gray, U.S. Army, WWII
- Earl Schwart, U.S. Navy
- Al Boyden, U.S. Army
- Dan Chadwick, U.S. Army
- Jerry Vandersanden, U.S. Army
- Dick Parsons, U.S. Marine Corps
- Greg Forest, U.S. Army
- Toni Elliott, U.S. Navy
- Lyle Dean, U.S. Army
- Brad Akers, U.S. Navy
- Duane Harms, U.S. Army, Retired
- Brad A. Howard, U.S. Marine Corps, Desert Storm
- Matt Cook, U.S. Marine Corps, Desert Storm
- John Bunker, U.S. Marine Corps, Desert Storm
- Jack P. Dixon, U.S. Navy, Vietnam
- Dot Sheldon, U.S. Air Force
- Jamie Hill, U.S. Marine Corps, Desert Storm
- Darwin Nielsen, U.S. Marine Corps, WWII
- Christe Harwood, U.S. Air Force
- Wilbert Muhs, U.S. Army, Vietnam
- Donald W. Peterson, U.S. Navy, WWII
- Ken Riha, U.S. Air Force, Retired
- M. Leann Fremont, U.S. Army
- Robert Magee, U.S. Air Force, WWII
- Russell A. Jamieson, U.S. Army, WWII
- Tom Kaldenberg, U.S. Air Force, Retired
- Roger W. Norfolk, U.S. Army, Retired
- Erin Steeman Strasburger, U.S. Navy
- Kenneth B. Nicholson, U.S. Army, Retired, WWII
- William C. Strasburger, U.S. Army
- Don Carr, Jr., U.S. Navy, Vietnam
- Russell D. Oviatt, U.S. Army, Vietnam
- Jim Bruner, U.S. Army, Vietnam
- James T. Knudsen, U.S. Army, Vietnam
- Steven W. Stark, US Navy, Desert Storm
- Troy A. Davis, U.S. Army, Desert Storm
- Kenneth A. Davis, U.S. Navy
- Kenneth H. Davis, U.S. Army, WWII
- Dennis W. Davis, U.S. Army, Vietnam
- Dewain R. Davis, U.S. Air Force
- Robert O. Davis, U.S. Air Force
- Daniel B. Wilhelm, U.S. Navy, Korea
- Vern F Hamlin, U.S. Army, WWII
- Maurice J. Ockenfels, U.S. Air Force, Korea
- Lawrence E. Ockenfels, U.S. Air Force, Korea
Final Roll Call
- Russell H. Oviatt, U.S. Army, WWII
- Dwayne M. Sill, U.S. Army
- John Hansen, WWII
- Kyle Germaine, U.S. Navy, WWII
- Bill L. Youker, U.S. Navy, Korea
- Charles E. Hartgrave, U.S. Army, WWII
- William J. Akers, U.S. Army, WWI
- Al Joyner, U.S. Marine Corps, Vietnam
- John Joyner, U.S. Marine Corps
- Jerry D. Bascom, Sr., U.S. Marine Corps, Vietnam
- Alley Miller, U.S. Army
- Laurence Francis (Larry) Erlacher, U.S. Army, WWII
- Donald E. Rhines, U.S. Army, WWI
- Raymond S. McFate, U.S. Army, WWII
- Jack Miller, U.S. Navy, WWII
- Floyd England, U.S. Navy, WWII
- David H. Jensen, U.S. Marine Corps
- Newton Hollingsworth, Jr., U.S. Army
- Robert E. Hollingsworth, U.S. Coast Guard, WWII
- William Hollingsworth, U.S. Army, WWII
- Kenneth E. Dieters, Sr., U.S. Army, WWII
- Don G. Kensinger, Sr, WWII
- Clair M. Nicholson, U.S. Navy, WWII
- Raymond E. Davis, USN Aviation, WWII, MIA
- Richard Ockenfels, U.S. Air Force, Korea
- Ken Ozburn, U.S. Navy, Korea
- Hayder A Salehoglu, U.S. Navy