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Stewarts Creek, La Vergne to honor fallen Blue Angel

Stewarts Creek and La Vergne will take part in a Red, White and Blue football game on Friday night at Stewarts Creek to honor USMC Capt. Jeffrey Kuss, the United State Navy Blue Angels pilot who crashed and died in Smyrna this summer.

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. The Smyrna/La Vergne Community will forever be indebted to the late Kuss in his heroic actions on the afternoon of June 1, by maneuvering his damaged jet away from an apartment complex into an adjacent field, thus sealing his fate but sparing the lives of hundreds of others.

On Fridayt, the evening will be marked by a number of special events:

u2981 The TSSAA has granted permission for any military personnel with appropriate ID FREE admittance to the game.