Breaking news: I’m pleased to report the that the City of Huntsville, Alabama has finished in first place in 20th Century Fox’s “Horton Hears You–Hometown Challenge.”<\/p>\n
Last Thursday, citizens of Huntsville, bolstered by a large contingent of soldiers from Redstone Arsenal, stood in front of the Von Braun Civic Center prior to the Huntsville Havoc vs. Columbus Cottonmouths hockey game and let loose a loud barbaric yawp which reportedly red-lined decibel meters and tickled seismographs as far away as Tupelo, Mississippi.<\/p>\n
By winning, those who participated receive free passes to a special Huntsville premiere prior to the nationwide release of “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who”<\/a> on March 14th. They out yelled a distinguished list of also-rans which included Fresno, California, West Orange, New Jersey and a large crowd gathered at New York City’s Central Park.<\/p>\n Video of the event can be seen here<\/a>. And yes, the contest will also be shown in a featurette prior to the movie. I didn’t have any doubt that we would win. You get a bunch of soldiers together and give them an objective and mission, and they’ll do the best they can. I just got my voice back (Monday) from yelling.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Hooah, Sgt Walker. And Hooah Huntsville. Enjoy the movie.\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Breaking news: I’m pleased to report the that the City of Huntsville, Alabama has finished in first place in 20th Century Fox’s “Horton Hears You–Hometown Challenge.” Last Thursday, citizens of Huntsville, bolstered by a large contingent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20,31,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-huntsville","category-military","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nWay to go Huntsville, and special thanks to the soldiers of Bravo and Charlie Companies of the 832nd Ordnance Battalion. Perhaps Sgt. 1st Class Steven Walker put it best:<\/p>\n\n