May 12, 2026 • 10 mins
Patriotic Productions has another inspiring Memorial Day weekend's worth of events set for you starting on Friday, May 22nd -- but only if a few hundred of us pitch in and help!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're taking time away from work to go and vote,
I don't think that you can tell your boss. Yeah,
I had to stand in line for two hours, head
to stand in line for five hours. We saw you
on the golf course. No, no, no, it was big
line there of people waiting to vote in this primary
election day. It is primary election day, but here on
(00:22):
May the twelfth. It's also astonishingly close to a Memorial
Day weekend, and we're talking about Memorial Day here in Omaha.
You got to welcome one of the directors of Patriotic
Productions here in the Omaha Metro. Bill Williams, is back
on eleven to ten kfab. Good morning, Bill, always a pleasure, Scott,
You've got to be with you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Of course, you're there to celebrate our nation in this
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary year, celebrate our military. But
you've also got a couple of big things coming up
here for people to be a part of. A big
flag and a big voice for a Memorial Day. Tell
me about the flag.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
The flag, Well, first of all, a year ago you
were our master of Ceremonies for one of our big
events that was the pat Boone and Margaret.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And you were the Johnny Carson that night. You were fabulous.
I've heard so many compliments on the on the job
that you did that night. So this year you are
the master of ceremonies for our Super Flag event. It's
the world's largest American flag, two hundred and fifty by
five hundred and five feet one hundred and twenty six
(01:33):
thousand square feet, weighs three thousand pounds.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I hope I have some help for this. You're going
to put it on a pole. I'm going to wave
it back and forth like a member of the Color Guard.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's kind of funny. People will say, so we're going
to put this on a pole and we're all going
to push it up like Ebo Jim and I said, No,
that's a This will be laid out flat so to fix.
So it takes a minimum of six hundred and fifty people.
So the requests from the flag owners is that we
need to get five hundred people there at six o'clock
(02:05):
at Memorial Park for a training session on how this
unfurling will take place at dusk. So anybody who's interested
in being part of this, if you consider coming at
six that'd be great, and then we'll have entertainment.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Now, wait, that's on that's on Friday. That's Friday now
not Memorial Day. We also organize that, but we'll talk
about that right now. So let's we'll just go, you know,
piece by piece here for the weekend on Friday, May
twenty second, one week from this Friday, six six pm.
(02:41):
Memorial Park in Omaha. That's where you can assist in
unfurling this flag and being a part of this. So
what do you need people to do? Just show up,
let people know that you're going to volunteer. We how
you know, people don't have have to sign up. We've
spread this far and wide, and so I think we're
(03:03):
going to get the five hundred we need.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now. At six o'clock we just learn how the process works.
We don't actually unfurl it, okay, So then we have entertainment.
We have food trucks, et cetera leading up to about
nine o'clock. And then the drone show is from Fantasy
Drone Shows out of Norfolk, who does you and L
games and they do events all over the country. So
(03:27):
they're going to put up a fifteen minute drone show
of four hundred red, white and blue lights and then
immediately after that then is the unfurling of the flag.
And then our our special guest coming from Ireland through
Boston is doctor Ronan Tynan and folks might remember him. Yeah, yeah, fabulous.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's a big flag, big voice. This is Ronan Tynan
and the Irish Tenor. Yeah, this is gonna be a
really special thing. So you got the drones overhead, you
got the flag laid flat there, and obviously we're not
(04:15):
putting it on the ground. We are not flag.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We don't put it under the ground. So it apparently
it'll run furl down the hill within three hundred feet
of Dodge Street, starting at the top. So people say, well,
I've seen the flag on NFL games. No, it's two
football fields, that's how big it is. So do we
have the room for that. We've measured it. We have
(04:41):
measured it four times.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, okay, So drone show giant flag, Ronan Tyan, the
Irish Tenor, and he's going to perform that evening.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
He will step up to the mic on the unfurling
and sing God Bless America. Now he's famous singing God
Bless America. Yankee Stadium after September eleventh, also for funerals
for Presidents Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. So he
is a world renowned tenor, and he'll step up and
(05:14):
do God Bless America. Immediately after that he does the
national anthem, as we are all holding this flag, and
so we think it'll probably wrap up by nine thirty.
So we invite all ages to come and put your
hands on the fabric.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So that is one week from this Friday. That's next Friday,
May twenty second, Memorial Park, Olmaha, six pm. If you
can come to learn how to unfurl the flag. If
if you think I don't know if that's for me,
I don't I can, I don't know. If I can
make it in time, that's fine. Come by afterwards because
there'll be entertainment and food vendors. And then that show
(05:52):
starts at nine o'clock. Correct, So that's on Friday. What
do we doing the rest of the weekend?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Bill Williams of Patriotic Productions online at PAIRI Preotic Productions
dot org for all the information about this.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So Yvonne and I are working a few details. And
so that's Friday night then two nights later we do
it once again at the sand Hills Global Events Center
in Lincoln at Sunday night, the twenty fourth, same plan,
same everything. Ronan won't be there because he's headed back
to Boston on Sunday. But and then the next morning
(06:25):
is Memorial Day, so we took over the organization of
that last year, changed the format top to bottom, put
one hundred foot tent down near Dodge, which there will.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Be again once again at Memorial Park.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
At Memorial Park, and we don't use politicians. The ceremony
is made up of re enactors portraying historical figures and
fallen military. We have the skydivers from Lincoln coming back
to bring in the colors and what has drawn the
young families, which is the mission so that young people
(06:59):
understand the meaning of Decoration Day we now call Memorial Day.
We give away free food. So this year Ivey's giving
away three thousand pancakes, pancakes, free coffee, free orange juice, cookies,
and milk, everything free. And so we invite people to
come and be part of our Memorial Day ceremony. We
(07:22):
have a thousand seats under the tenth and we want.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You to come and again that's not something you have
to register for buy a ticket for, just show up
and be ready to have a pancake and to celebrate
our country.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And that starts at ten o'clock, but the free food
is eight to nine thirty.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Why is it bill so important to you and your
wife Yvonne and Patriotic Productions to be a part of
reminding people Memorial Day weekend is about more than a
day off and maybe the start of the summer season,
you go see a movie and you go out camping.
All these things are great. We want you to do
all these things, but let's remember why we get a
(08:01):
chance to do them. Why is it so important to you?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, because our history with Patriotic Productions is thirteen honor
flights that took thirty five hundred veterans to DC. We're
also the creators of remembering our fallen, traveling photos of
the fallen since nine to eleven. So this is what
we've done for fifteen years or more now, I guess.
(08:26):
And so we just think it's important, particularly for young
people to come on Memorial Day or to the flag
and they should put their hands on the flag to
realize how lucky we all are to be Americans, and
so I just think we need to be reminded, and
grandparents should bring grandkids, and it's all well and good
to have a doubleheader during the morning, but really what's
(08:49):
more important, I think is to go to Memorial Day
ceremony and I look.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Forward to seeing you there at Memorial Park one week
from this Friday. That's next Friday, May twenty second, where
we'll be a part of learning how to unfurl the
world's largest American flag there at Memorial Park, and I'll
get a chance to kind of direct some of the
traffic in terms of the entertainment that even welcome Irish
tenor Ronan Tynan to Omaha. Hear that performance, see the
(09:16):
Drone show. And if you've never seen the drone show
at Memorial Stadium right before the fourth quarter of Nebraska
football night game, it is so special. It's amazing what
these guys can do. So that's next Friday night, and
then Monday morning, I'll be on the radio here checking
with you and Delaney from the KFAB team who will
(09:39):
be out at Memorial Park doing some of that, and
then I'll come down here after the show at to
Memorial Park on Monday morning, so I'll get a chance
to book end the weekend with you and for you
and Lincoln as well. That's Sunday night at the sand
Hills Event Center. All the details are online to Patriotic
Productions dot org. Bill Williams Thotic Productions, thanks again for
(10:02):
doing something so cool for our community, not just Omaha
and Lincoln, but for our nation and to pay tribute
to our military and why we get to do all
these things we get to do living in the greatest
country on Earth. Bill Williams, God bless you. Thank you
so much for doing this. Thank you, Scott. Thanks so
much Scott for Yes there You're going.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
News Radio eleven ten kfab
If you're taking time away from work to go and vote,
I don't think that you can tell your boss. Yeah,
I had to stand in line for two hours, head
to stand in line for five hours. We saw you
on the golf course. No, no, no, it was big
line there of people waiting to vote in this primary
election day. It is primary election day, but here on
(00:22):
May the twelfth. It's also astonishingly close to a Memorial
Day weekend, and we're talking about Memorial Day here in Omaha.
You got to welcome one of the directors of Patriotic
Productions here in the Omaha Metro. Bill Williams, is back
on eleven to ten kfab. Good morning, Bill, always a pleasure, Scott,
You've got to be with you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Of course, you're there to celebrate our nation in this
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary year, celebrate our military. But
you've also got a couple of big things coming up
here for people to be a part of. A big
flag and a big voice for a Memorial Day. Tell
me about the flag.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
The flag, Well, first of all, a year ago you
were our master of Ceremonies for one of our big
events that was the pat Boone and Margaret.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
That was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And you were the Johnny Carson that night. You were fabulous.
I've heard so many compliments on the on the job
that you did that night. So this year you are
the master of ceremonies for our Super Flag event. It's
the world's largest American flag, two hundred and fifty by
five hundred and five feet one hundred and twenty six
(01:33):
thousand square feet, weighs three thousand pounds.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
I hope I have some help for this. You're going
to put it on a pole. I'm going to wave
it back and forth like a member of the Color Guard.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's kind of funny. People will say, so we're going
to put this on a pole and we're all going
to push it up like Ebo Jim and I said, No,
that's a This will be laid out flat so to fix.
So it takes a minimum of six hundred and fifty people.
So the requests from the flag owners is that we
need to get five hundred people there at six o'clock
(02:05):
at Memorial Park for a training session on how this
unfurling will take place at dusk. So anybody who's interested
in being part of this, if you consider coming at
six that'd be great, and then we'll have entertainment.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Now, wait, that's on that's on Friday. That's Friday now
not Memorial Day. We also organize that, but we'll talk
about that right now. So let's we'll just go, you know,
piece by piece here for the weekend on Friday, May
twenty second, one week from this Friday, six six pm.
(02:41):
Memorial Park in Omaha. That's where you can assist in
unfurling this flag and being a part of this. So
what do you need people to do? Just show up,
let people know that you're going to volunteer. We how
you know, people don't have have to sign up. We've
spread this far and wide, and so I think we're
(03:03):
going to get the five hundred we need.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Now. At six o'clock we just learn how the process works.
We don't actually unfurl it, okay, So then we have entertainment.
We have food trucks, et cetera leading up to about
nine o'clock. And then the drone show is from Fantasy
Drone Shows out of Norfolk, who does you and L
games and they do events all over the country. So
(03:27):
they're going to put up a fifteen minute drone show
of four hundred red, white and blue lights and then
immediately after that then is the unfurling of the flag.
And then our our special guest coming from Ireland through
Boston is doctor Ronan Tynan and folks might remember him. Yeah, yeah, fabulous.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's a big flag, big voice. This is Ronan Tynan
and the Irish Tenor. Yeah, this is gonna be a
really special thing. So you got the drones overhead, you
got the flag laid flat there, and obviously we're not
(04:15):
putting it on the ground. We are not flag.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
We don't put it under the ground. So it apparently
it'll run furl down the hill within three hundred feet
of Dodge Street, starting at the top. So people say, well,
I've seen the flag on NFL games. No, it's two
football fields, that's how big it is. So do we
have the room for that. We've measured it. We have
(04:41):
measured it four times.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, okay, So drone show giant flag, Ronan Tyan, the
Irish Tenor, and he's going to perform that evening.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
He will step up to the mic on the unfurling
and sing God Bless America. Now he's famous singing God
Bless America. Yankee Stadium after September eleventh, also for funerals
for Presidents Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. So he
is a world renowned tenor, and he'll step up and
(05:14):
do God Bless America. Immediately after that he does the
national anthem, as we are all holding this flag, and
so we think it'll probably wrap up by nine thirty.
So we invite all ages to come and put your
hands on the fabric.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So that is one week from this Friday. That's next Friday,
May twenty second, Memorial Park, Olmaha, six pm. If you
can come to learn how to unfurl the flag. If
if you think I don't know if that's for me,
I don't I can, I don't know. If I can
make it in time, that's fine. Come by afterwards because
there'll be entertainment and food vendors. And then that show
(05:52):
starts at nine o'clock. Correct, So that's on Friday. What
do we doing the rest of the weekend?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Bill Williams of Patriotic Productions online at PAIRI Preotic Productions
dot org for all the information about this.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
So Yvonne and I are working a few details. And
so that's Friday night then two nights later we do
it once again at the sand Hills Global Events Center
in Lincoln at Sunday night, the twenty fourth, same plan,
same everything. Ronan won't be there because he's headed back
to Boston on Sunday. But and then the next morning
(06:25):
is Memorial Day, so we took over the organization of
that last year, changed the format top to bottom, put
one hundred foot tent down near Dodge, which there will.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Be again once again at Memorial Park.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
At Memorial Park, and we don't use politicians. The ceremony
is made up of re enactors portraying historical figures and
fallen military. We have the skydivers from Lincoln coming back
to bring in the colors and what has drawn the
young families, which is the mission so that young people
(06:59):
understand the meaning of Decoration Day we now call Memorial Day.
We give away free food. So this year Ivey's giving
away three thousand pancakes, pancakes, free coffee, free orange juice, cookies,
and milk, everything free. And so we invite people to
come and be part of our Memorial Day ceremony. We
(07:22):
have a thousand seats under the tenth and we want.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
You to come and again that's not something you have
to register for buy a ticket for, just show up
and be ready to have a pancake and to celebrate
our country.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And that starts at ten o'clock, but the free food
is eight to nine thirty.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Why is it bill so important to you and your
wife Yvonne and Patriotic Productions to be a part of
reminding people Memorial Day weekend is about more than a
day off and maybe the start of the summer season,
you go see a movie and you go out camping.
All these things are great. We want you to do
all these things, but let's remember why we get a
(08:01):
chance to do them. Why is it so important to you?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, because our history with Patriotic Productions is thirteen honor
flights that took thirty five hundred veterans to DC. We're
also the creators of remembering our fallen, traveling photos of
the fallen since nine to eleven. So this is what
we've done for fifteen years or more now, I guess.
(08:26):
And so we just think it's important, particularly for young
people to come on Memorial Day or to the flag
and they should put their hands on the flag to
realize how lucky we all are to be Americans, and
so I just think we need to be reminded, and
grandparents should bring grandkids, and it's all well and good
to have a doubleheader during the morning, but really what's
(08:49):
more important, I think is to go to Memorial Day
ceremony and I look.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Forward to seeing you there at Memorial Park one week
from this Friday. That's next Friday, May twenty second, where
we'll be a part of learning how to unfurl the
world's largest American flag there at Memorial Park, and I'll
get a chance to kind of direct some of the
traffic in terms of the entertainment that even welcome Irish
tenor Ronan Tynan to Omaha. Hear that performance, see the
(09:16):
Drone show. And if you've never seen the drone show
at Memorial Stadium right before the fourth quarter of Nebraska
football night game, it is so special. It's amazing what
these guys can do. So that's next Friday night, and
then Monday morning, I'll be on the radio here checking
with you and Delaney from the KFAB team who will
(09:39):
be out at Memorial Park doing some of that, and
then I'll come down here after the show at to
Memorial Park on Monday morning, so I'll get a chance
to book end the weekend with you and for you
and Lincoln as well. That's Sunday night at the sand
Hills Event Center. All the details are online to Patriotic
Productions dot org. Bill Williams Thotic Productions, thanks again for
(10:02):
doing something so cool for our community, not just Omaha
and Lincoln, but for our nation and to pay tribute
to our military and why we get to do all
these things we get to do living in the greatest
country on Earth. Bill Williams, God bless you. Thank you
so much for doing this. Thank you, Scott. Thanks so
much Scott for Yes there You're going.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
News Radio eleven ten kfab
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