Here are the details of Vice President Mike Pence's visit for Savannah St. Patrick's Day

Vice President Mike Pence is traveling to Savannah on Saturday to participate in the city's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade.

According to a White House official speaking on background, Air Force Two is scheduled to arrive at 10 a.m. at Georgia Air National Guard (165th Airlift Wing Georgia Air National Guard).

Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and his mother Nancy Pence-Fritsch will be making the trip. U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina also is expected to attend.

Pence will join Mayor Eddie DeLoach in welcoming the parade participants and parade attendees. The two will appear on the Savannah City Hall Balcony before later walking down Bull Street to join local leaders, parade officials, and the citizens of Savannah.

The Pence family looks forward to celebrating the courage and sacrifice of those who were willing to come to this country in search of the American Dream, the official said. Richard Michael Cawley, the vice president’s grandfather and namesake, stepped onto Ellis Island after a long journey from Tubbercurry Ireland in 1923. The vice president’s family story is an American tale relatable to many celebrating this historic tradition in the city of Savannah and around the country.

Pence will return to Washington, D.C., after his Savannah visit.

Pence spoke of his heritage at the American Ireland Fund National Gala in March 2017. He said:

 “…It does all go back to that day. It was Inauguration Day just a few short weeks ago. People ask me what I was thinking about surrounded by my wife and my children, our beautiful new daughter-in-law. My mother was just there, a few seats behind the President. I just kept thinking of that day in April in 1923. That was the day when Richard Michael Cawley stepped off the boat on Ellis Island. He was in his early 20s when he steamed into Upper New York Bay aboard the Andania, the ship that carried him here.

"I can’t imagine what the sight of the Statue of Liberty meant to him that day, holding aloft the torch of freedom. My grandfather went home to be with the Lord when it was in about my 26th year. But we were very close. He said I was the only Irishman born among the four boys in our family. Not sure yet what that meant. But I was flattered by it.

"My grandpa had grown up in a little town called Tobercurry, in County Sligo. When I was young man I had a chance to visit that house before they tore it down. It was just a two-room house where his eight brothers and sisters grew up. And I literally walked up the hill that — when Karen and I and the kids visited Ireland just a few years ago, we walked up that hill, as well. The legend in our family was my great grandmother had stood outside that little house and looked over at the Ox Mountains and looked off to the west, and told him that he needed to go because she said, there’s a future there for you.

"He wouldn’t speak to his mother for 25 years. And when he said the old country, he said with a reverence that I could never adequately express. He talked about crossing the pond, talked about the heartbreak of that separation.

"But as I stood on that inaugural stage, I just kept thinking of that Irishman. I kept thinking of what he would be thinking about looking down from glory. And I know two things for sure.

"Number one, knowing me as well as he did, he would be extremely surprised.

"Number two, I have to think he just thought he was right. He was right about America. He was right to summon the courage as generations did before and since to come here and follow their dreams, and make the contributions that they did. He was right to drive that bus for 40 years in Chicago. He was right to raise that irascible redhead that would marry a fast-talking salesman and follow work down to a little, small farm town in southern Indiana and raise six kids with the same heritage and the same values that she had been raised with.

"The truth is that whatever honors I will receive over the course of my service as Vice President, and to receive an honor in the name of the Irish people and my Irish heritage will count as chief among them. Because all that I am and all that I will ever be and all the service that I will ever render is owing to my Irish heritage. And I will summon what is the best of it as I serve the people of this country with the faith, with the determination, with the cheerfulness, the humility, and the humor that is characteristic of the great people of the Emerald Isle.

"So here’s to Ireland. Here’s to the United States of America. Here’s to our shared heritage, and here’s to the confident, confident hope that the ties between our people and the Irish people will only grow and expand as the years go on to the betterment of our people and the world.”