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From YouTube: Fred Haise Statue Dedication, Feb. 13 2022
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Here is a video of the ceremony to dedicate a statue of Fred Haise, Biloxi native, celebrated fighter pilot, space explorer, Apollo 13 astronaut, Space Shuttle test pilot, and, of course, "Pecky" to friends and family.
A
We
brought
you
the
story
of
biloxi's
astronaut,
fred,
hayes
lunar
module
pilot
for
apollo
13.
in
all
the
drama
that
unfolded
over
those
fateful
days
in
april
1970,
the
artist
marriott
trimmel
davidson,
who
was
commissioned
by
the
city
of
biloxi,
to
create
the
statue
to
be
dedicated
in
the
honor
of
fred
hayes
and
his
historic
achievement.
A
B
C
B
C
This
is
all
just
different
form,
some
of
its
actual
formations
from
lunar
maps
and
some
of
it's
just
from
my
imagination,
but
the
closest
to
the
statue.
That's
that
particular
formation
is
where
the
apollo
13
landed
was
supposed
to
land.
If
everything
would
have
went
right
on
the
moon,
so
nature
did
that,
and
then
I
did
the
apollo
13
seal
mission,
insignia
and
there's
different
big
landmarks
that
I
did
from
the
moon
like
over
there.
It
looks
like
a
big
sun.
It's
actually
taiko
the
biggest
crater
on
the
moon.
B
C
B
C
Have
I
have
one
at
neon
moon
in
ocean
springs
and
I'm
supposed
to
have
one
installed
from
the
gulfport
main
street
association
anytime.
Now
I
finished
it
in
my
house.
It
was
portable,
so
they
can
put
it
wherever
they
would
like.
So
hopefully
we'll
see
that
popping
up
really
soon
too
I've
been
all
over
the
place
painting.
Now
I
did
an
electrical
box
in
bay,
st
louis,
for
the
wall-to-wall
mural
contest
too.
C
B
A
A
A
E
F
E
E
H
Us
pray
heavenly
father,
we
gather
in
wonder
and
awe
at
the
universe
that
you
have
created
and
we
gather
to
honor
the
astronaut
men
and
women
who,
like
explorers
of
old,
who
went
forth
and
came
to
the
mississippi
gulf
coast,
continue
to
go
forth.
Unselfishly
to
help
us
better
understand
that
universe.
H
E
E
E
E
E
We
have
a
number
of
distinguished
guests
with
us
today.
Don't
worry
I'll
get
to
you
in
a
minute.
We
have
a
number
of
distinguished
guests
here
today.
We
want
to
recognize
the
hayes
family
where's,
the
hayes
family
come
on.
Let's
raise
our
hands
all
down
here
in
the
front
row.
Councilman
george
lawrence
raise
your
hand,
councilman
felix
guines,
councilmember,
paul
tisdale,
councilman,
kenny,
glavin,
councilman
nathan
barrett.
E
We
want
to
welcome
congressman
stephen
palazzo
congressman.
Where
are
you
state
representative
kevin
felcher
is
with
us
today
from
the
office
of
senator
roger
wicker,
chris
vines,
hello,
chris
from
kessler
air
force
base.
We
welcome
general
michelle
edmundson,
also
from
keiser.
We
welcome
our
good
friend
colonel
william
hunter
from
the
biloxi
biloxi
public
school
district.
Please
welcome
marcus,
boudreau
and,
of
course,
the
biloxi
high
jazz
band,
dr
mary,
graham
president
of
mississippi
gulf
coast,
community
college
is
with
us.
E
E
We
want
to
thank
their
culinary
program.
We
want
to
thank
the
bands
we
want
to
thank
the
purkettes.
We
also
want
to
thank
the
people
who
drove
fred
hayes
here
from
the
visitor
center
to
right
over
here,
michael
and
susan
peterson,
and
I'm
looking
for
lucinda
where's
lucinda,
my
artist
lucinda
come
on
up
here
wherever
you
are,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
while
lucinda
makes
our
way
up
here
to
take
a
seat
on
the
stage,
I
would
like
to
call
forward
the
man
who
had
the
vision
to
bring
all
of
this
together
where
we
are
here
today.
E
I
I
This
has
been
a
tough
week
for
fred.
He
lost
his
wife
pat
earlier
this
week,
and
I
know
he
it
was.
You
know
we
offer
our
sincerest
of
sympathies
and
condolences
to
you
and
your
family.
I
know
it's
been
rough,
your
daughter,
your
granddaughter,
and
we
we
love
you
and-
and
I
know
it's
it's
tough,
but
we're
certainly
with
you
and
hope
we
can.
You
know,
fill
in
a
little
bit
with
this.
I
I
I
A
term
that
will
pop
up
when
you're
talking
about
super
computers
and
super
computing
is
massively
parallel
processing
and
that's
what
happened
today
over.
I
guess
since
2020,
when
we
first
dreamed
this
up.
Let
me
share
a
little
bit
about
that
and
thank
some
of
the
people.
Thank
everybody.
That's
here
today,
but
I
want
to
begin
fred.
We've
had
some
some
good
friends
common
friends.
We
started
at
the
lodge
about
seven
years
ago
and
you
did
a
tremendous
presentation
and
visited
with
a
lot
of
folks.
I
He
went
to
high
school
with
and
visited
with,
but
at
that
point
in
time
we
just
you
know
every
presentation
he
does
and
just
you
just
learn
so
much
more
about
the
greatness
of
fred
hayes.
Well,
we
were
coming
out
to
simonia
lodge
and
we
had
a
little
construction
going
on
in
biloxi.
You
all
remember
that
right.
I
Well,
outside
the
lodge
there
was
a
10
foot,
manhole
96
inch.
Excuse
me:
10
foot
high
96
inch
inside
diameter
that
was
to
be
in
set
in
the
ground
there's
like
160
of
them.
So
I
said
we
want
to
do
something
we're
going
to
make
that
look
like
the
base
of
a
saturn
v
and
that
and
that
thing
is
66
000
pounds
and
it's
not
going
anywhere
and
when
we
and
fred
hayes
you
know
it's
going
to
be
there
forever.
So
I
want
to
thank
some
of
these
folks
design.
I
I
Of
course,
the
the
grounds
you're
just
hitting
here,
I
think
general
patel,
engineered
patel
and
seymour
engineering
converted
this
facility
from
78
parking
places
to
173..
I
think,
is
that
right
mark.
So
this
is
really
the
first
event
of
a
you
know.
I
think
just
a
tremendous
place
with
the
flagpole
and,
of
course,
fred
looking
at
explorer
pierre
lamar
in
the
alberville
that
couldn't
be
any
better.
Now
we've
had
some
talk
about
exploring
right.
I
Well,
I
think
a
historian
dale
greenwell
mentioned
you
know
about
where
he
landed
karma
pierre
lamar
in
the
albeville.
Well,
it
was
a
little
bit
west
of
the
mall.
I
don't
know
where
how
he
knew
where
the
mall
was
going,
but
that's
where
it
was,
but
anyway
seriously
folks
back
to
dally
construction,
of
course,
marriott,
and
we
we
went
through
some
things
as
this
came
to
fruition,
but
really
everybody
was
processing
did
their
part
from
the
time.
I
I
think
the
fire
department
sent
the
clay
to
the
foundry
right
and
then
you
know
how
we
got
it
back:
john
johnny
fayyard,
moving
in
storage
and
wc
again,
but
the
city
of
biloxi
each
and
every
one
of
the
departments
I've
got
to.
Thank
you
know
even
vincent.
I
got
to
thank
him
to
see.
I
got
to
thank
him.
Thank
the
pd,
thank
everybody
because
it
really
is
talking
about
doing
that
part
parallel
processing.
That's
what
it's
been
so
I
want
to
call
you
know.
I
E
J
Well,
good
evening,
you
know
it's
a
great
honor
to
be
here
and
I
have
to
say,
I'm
excited
to
be
here.
You
know
we
have
fred
hayes,
really
he's
the
he's.
The
biloxi
native
son
he's
a
space
pioneer
and
he
is
a
true
american
hero.
We
don't
get
a
chance
to
hang
out
with
folks
like
that.
All
the
time
do
we,
that
is
that's
outstanding,.
J
J
If
you
apply
yourself,
you
work
hard,
it
can
take
you
to
places
very
few
people
have
ever
been
in
the
entire
world.
He's
an
example
of
that
also
so
fred.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
so
much
for
being
such
a
great
ambassador
for
biloxi,
for
the
mississippi
gulf
coast
and
for
the
state
of
mississippi
mayor
gillich.
Thank
you
for
adding
this
beautiful
statue
to
the
city's
landscape.
J
It's
going
to
provide
our
residents
and
our
visitors
an
opportunity
to
learn
more
about
the
life
of
fred
hayes,
our
favorite
citizen
at
mississippi
power.
We
kind
of
think
of
ourselves
a
little
bit
a
part
of
the
space
program.
We
provide
the
energy
to
stennis,
which
has
tested
the
engines
to
every
man
and
woman.
That's
ever
gone
to
space,
we're
proud
of
that.
We're
proud
of
that
partnership
with
nasa
and
we're
certainly
proud
to
be
a
part
of
this
special
event
today.
So
thank
you.
E
K
Fred,
first
off
it's
an
honor.
He
is
definitely
one
of
my
heroes
and
I
really
it's
an
honor
to
be
here.
So
I
am
the
chairman
of
the
board
of
directors
for
the
infiniti
science
center
and
one
of
the
first
things
that
one
of
the
founding
fathers
of
infinity
did
was
to
ask
fred
hayes
to
be
on
the
board
to
serve
on
the
board
and
since
2008
fred
accepted
that
and
has
been
very
much
engaged
in
speaking
to
youth
and
schools.
K
K
He
signed
he
drives
from
houston
several
times
a
year
to
do
nothing
but
sign
autographs
of
people.
That's
ordered
things
about
fred,
hayes,
bobbleheads
and
and
pictures,
and
and
he
will
sit
there
for
hours
and
hours
and
hours
and
autograph
each
one
of
them
and
personalize
each
one
of
them
as
people
have
requested
for
them
him
to
do.
K
K
K
K
K
K
E
Thank
you
very
much
we're
going
to
take
a
small
little
bit
of
detour
right
here
and
the
reason
we're
going
to
do.
That
is
because
we
have
someone
who
has
had
fred
hayes
in
her
house
for
the
last
two
years
and
there
is
a
fred
hayes
statue.
Excuse
me
a
statue
right
across
the
highway
for
the
explorer
pierre
lemoine
d'iberville.
E
That
statue
was
dedicated
exactly
23
years
ago
today
on
february
13
1999,
that
was
the
300th
anniversary
of
the
founding
of
biloxi.
When
we
went
to
do
a
statue
of
fred
hayes,
there
was
no
debate
about
it.
Ladies
and
gentlemen,
please
welcome
the
sculptor
of
the
fred
hayes
statue,
marriott
trimmel
davidson.
L
As
a
native
biloxian,
I'm
so
thankful
to
the
mayor
and
the
city
of
biloxi
for
giving
me
this
opportunity
to
create
this
wonderful
individual
in
his
astronaut
outfit
when
it
comes
to
making
a
statue.
There's
many
stages
and
the
first
step
deals
with
the
clay.
You
make
an
armature
out
of
wood
and
then
you
get
this
clay.
Well,
this
clay
is
massive.
L
It's
thick
it's
hard
to
work
with
and
you
need
help
well.
I
was
starting
and
I
was
well
underway
and
then
I
got
detoured
for
a
while
when
I
had
to
deal
with
a
cancer
problem
and
there
I
found
so
many
wonderful
individuals
to
help
me
my
family,
but
most
of
all
my
husband,
I
had
friends,
I
even
had
former
students
come
and
help
me
roll
out
the
clay.
So
I
could
finish
it.
L
E
E
E
D
D
D
The
bluxy
boy
that
grew
up
on
church
street
attended
going
flow,
elementary
school,
lexi,
junior,
high
school
bluxey,
high
school
and
perkinson
junior
college.
So
we
were
together
through
through
all
of
that
fred
was
a
year
younger
than
the
rest
of
the
class,
which
means
he
accomplished
many
things
a
lot
earlier
in
his
life
than
we
did.
D
Well,
fred
was
at
gorn
flow,
fred
acquired
the
nickname
pecky,
and
that
was
because
he
played
a
woodpecker
in
a
in
a
class
play,
but
that
nickname
stuck
with
him
until
he
graduated
from
from
park-
and
I
don't
know
after
that-
he
picked
up
some
other
other
nicknames.
I'm
sure
it
appeared
that
fred
was
destined
to
be
a
journalist.
D
D
As
we
graduated
from
lexi
from
perk
excuse
me,
fred
became
a
sports
editor
for
the
biloxi
high
tide
and
also
covered
many
of
the
biloxi
football
games.
As
a
reporter
for
the
herald,
I
found
the
newspaper
clipping
with
the
fred
hayes
byline
now
a
16
year
old
reporter
with
a
byline
back
in
those
days,
was
a
big
deal.
D
D
D
M
This
is
such
an
incredible
day.
I
thank
you
all
for
coming
out.
One
person
missed
I'd
like
to
introduce
that
also
made.
The
long
drive
from
houston
over
here
was
a
daughter,
angela
sitting
on
the
ground
out
out
in
front
here.
She
made
she
made
a
long
drive
from
houston,
as
I
did
yesterday
this.
This
is
just
profound.
I
I
was
fortunate,
very
fortunate
and
blessed
to
have
a
long,
interesting,
rewarding
career,
which
I
didn't
do
on
my
own.
M
As
mentioned
before
I
I
hope
this
statue
and
it's
probably
gonna,
get
weathered
after
a
while
with
the
hurricanes
and
and
whatever
I
hope,
not
to
weather,
but
there
will
be
school
projects.
I
hope,
because
fred
hayes
will
be
forgotten
and
they
will
maybe
children
may
not
like
it,
but
they
may
be
given
school
projects
figure
out.
What
who
is
this
guy?
M
Who
who
is
fred
hayes-
and
I
hope,
as
a
check
through
google
or
or
whatever
means
there
are
for
acquiring
that
kind
of
information?
Even
I
want
advertisement,
I'm
writing
I've
written
a
book
with
the
smithsonian
press-
that's
coming
out
in
april,
and
it
tells
a
lot
about
my
time
early
biloxi
and
I
hope
they
see
that
what
that
was
how
it
was
growing
up
here
was
a
small
town.
M
M
The
school
yard
was
your
playground
and
I
could
stay
after
school
or
come
down
to
the
beach.
All
on
my
own,
the
only
rule
was,
I
had
to
be
home
for
dusk
for
for
supper
time
and
I
was
free
to
go
anywhere
and
that
was
all
the
way
through
school
at
that
time.
So
that's
kind
of
small
town
environment
I
grew
up
in
which
was
great.
M
The
the
time
came
of
world
war
ii
earlier
mentioned
by
the
mayor
in
a
previous
talk,
where
this
place
grew
up,
count
gulfport
field
and
kiesler
to
over
a
hundred
thousand
army
army
airmen.
At
that
time,
air
force
had
not
arrived
yet,
and
I
hope
to
see
this.
This
young
fellow
took
advantage
of
that
and
my
dad
made
me
a
shoebox
and
I
bought
a
black
and
brown
polish
and
a
rag
and
a
brush,
and
I
shined
shoes,
these
airmen
needed
shine
shoes,
so
I
shined
them
for
a
nickel.
M
Now
nickel
may
not
seem
much,
but
at
that
time
you
could
buy
five
tootsie
rolls
for
a
nickel
or
you
could
get
an
rc
cola.
I
mean
so
you
know
it
was
it
was.
It
was
good
employment
and
that
continued,
as
mentioned
with
the
journalism
business
and
the
the
son
biloxi
gulfport
daily
herald,
which
was
owned
by
one
of
my
call,
it
mentors
a.p
wilkes.
M
M
We
delivered
them
six
days
a
week,
no
sunday
paper,
we
got
20
cents
a
week.
We
had
to
pay
the
herald
12
cents
a
week.
That's
what
it
cost
us
two
cents
of
paper,
so
we
made
eight
cents
on
each
customer
and
I
had
the
route
from
about
main
street
to
cruises
and
and
I
had
170
papers,
average
170
customers.
M
So
I
was
I
was
like
17
14
a
week,
so
I
was
really
getting
up
in
the
world
when
I
had
that
newspaper
out
and
later
became
a
what
what
they
call
the
office
boy.
I
and
I
don't
know
freddie
simon-
made
it
here
today
and
find
it
ready,
yeah.
Okay
and
we
were.
We
were
two
office
boys
under
joe
wink.
Joe
wink
was
the
head
office
boy
and
we
basically
were
responsible
for
split
the
city
in
half
and
we
each
had
half
the
city
to
know
the
routes.
M
M
M
They
made
me
the
band
leader,
because
that
way
I
didn't
have
to
play
anything
and
then
at
the
pta
meetings
or
whatever,
when
we
played,
I
just
had
to
stand
in
front
and
wave
a
wand,
but
they
didn't
pay
attention
to
me.
They
watched
the
teachers
down
below
for
the
to
keep
the
music
straight
and
same
way
in
that
musical
mention.
They
made
me
the
woodpecker,
because
I
didn't
have
to
sing.
M
All
I
had
to
do
was
dance
around
and
end
in
and
then
that's
part
of
the
the
show,
and
I
got
the
name
peggy,
because
teachers
decided,
maybe
they
shouldn't,
have
given
me
that
job
I
was
always
running
around
pecking
on
the
girls
with
the
beak
on
my
and
she
decided.
I
was
probably
a
mistake
to
give
me
that
job,
but
but
at
any
rate
it
was,
I
was
enjoyed
and
a
lot
a
lot
of
the
character
discipline
whatever
I.
M
I
grew
up
through
this
environment
here
and
through,
as
as
mentioned,
all
the
way
through.
I
was
in
the
only
campus
perkinson
junior
college
at
the
time,
but
it's
I
was
obviously
had
the
help
of
those
mentors
along
the
way
and,
as
I
went
on
through
life,
both
in
the
military
and
with
nasa
20
years
same
way,
there
was
a
lot
a
lot
of
people
behind
what
I
did
or
others
did
at
least
those
that
were
flying
either.
Airplanes
are
as
a
case
in
space,
but
I
hope
they
they
look.
M
M
It
varies
the
the
whether
we're
the
musician
side
or
the
engineer
side,
but
we
all
have
talent,
and
I
encourage
them
to
try
to
figure
that
out.
Sometimes
it's
difficult
to
figure
out
what
you
really,
how
you
want
to
use
it,
but
to
work
hard
at
figuring
that
out
and
how
best
to
make
the
use
of
the
talent
you've
been
blessed
with
at
birth
and
make
make
the
best
of
your
life
a
productive,
enjoyable
life.
My
case
quite
an
exciting
life.
M
Sorry,
I
think
I
thank
again
the
sponsors
in
particularly
mississippi
power.
Actually,
who
is
a
great
sponsor
to
get
us
started
with
infinity
science
center.
When
we
were
just
getting
off
the
ground
back,
then
they
were.
They
were
a
big
sponsor
to
help
us
out
and
all
of
you
who
come
out
to
see
this
biloxi
boy
who
just
grew
up
here
and
got
to
do
some
great
things.
Thank
you.
I
Listen,
I
got
one
thing.
You
know:
biloxi's
got
a
lot
of
cool
things
right.
We
got
our
white
house,
we
got
the
holy
land,
we
got
on
holy
land
and,
along
those
same
lines
a
while
back
one
of
my
relatives.
We
blexed
won
an
award
for
ending
homelessness
for
veterans
and
I
said
we're
getting
ready
for
my
cousins.
I
I
said
we're
getting
ready
to
go
to
the
white
house
and
have
lunch
with
the
first
lady
and
she
said,
oh,
I
didn't
know
she
was
coming
to
biloxi,
but
but
all
those
lines
I
had
to
come
say
one
of
my
relatives.
But
anyway
we
talked
about
fred
hayes
and
the
dedication
of
the
statue-
and
one
of
my
friends
is
said,
listen
I
am
so
excited
I
wa.
If
I
come
down
here,
you
think
I
could
ask
him
how
it
was
how
it
was
to
work
with
tom
hanks
in
the
mood.
E
Okay,
the
first
thing
is
fred's
gonna,
put
his
hand
print
right
here
in
the
cement
he's
going
to
sign
his
name,
and
while
we're
doing
that
and
before
we
unveil
the
statue,
let
me
tell
you
about
something
else
that
nobody
knows
about,
except
for
you
that
are
right
here
today.
This
is
lucinda
pinicero
infant.