On the road

On the road

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Honor Flight

I've been appointed to the board of Honor Flight DFW. I've had the honor of being a guardian on two flights to the WWII Memorial in D.C. We take WWII veterans free of charge to visit THEIR memorial.
There is going to be a massive fundraising effort this Spring tentatively titled "Adopt A Veteran." This campaign will raise funds to (hopefully) have more than two trips to D.C. in 2012.
I've been interviewing WWII vets as of late getting their wartime information so I write a brief bio on each one selected to be in this campaign.
Fascinating stories! For instance today I talked with two heroes, one was assigned to the O.S.S. ( pre-CIA) in Burma fighting the Japanese. The other was a bombadier on a B-17 like pictured above with the 8th AF in England in 1944-45. Amazing histories that are leaving us at a rate of 700-`1000 a day. Out of 16 million veterans of WWII it is estimated only 2 million are left in the states.
Hopefully, we can get a lot of these stories told, before it's too late. 

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