McConnell helps film 'world's largest concert' segment

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  • By Capt. Brus E. Vidal
  • 22nd Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs
MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. (AFPN) --  A Public Broadcasting Service film crew came here to tape a segment for the “World’s Largest Concert” that will air next year.

Base members and students from Beech Elementary School of Wichita, Kan., and Unified School District 259 took part in the Dec. 2 event. PBS will transmit the segment during a March 2006 worldwide broadcast.

About 55 children sang “My Country ‘Tis of Thee.” Behind them was a 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker on static display. In front, stood a formation 50 Airmen and a color guard.

Security forces troops in their Humvees, medics in ambulances and firefighters in a fire truck flanked the formation.

The World’s Largest Concert has been the highlight of the National Association for Music Educations’ Music in Our Schools Month since 1985. As a sing-along concert that links students around the world through music, the concert now reaches an estimated 6 million students, teachers and music supporters each year.

With the support of PBS stations, educational networks and the American Forces Television and Radio Network, the program is broadcast across the United States and abroad on the second Thursday in March.