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Thanking our WWII vets |
2010-09-02 |
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By Martha Barksdale |
 Fifth grade students from Jo Springer’s Huddleston Elementary Social Studies classes. (Special photo) Wednesday Sept. 15 will mark the seventh and final trip by Honor Flight Fayette to Washington, D.C., they plan to take about 70 veterans. This will make a total of almost 500 veterans who have made this trip since the first one in 2008.
Honor Flight Fayette encourages everyone who can to line the streets with their flags that morning and give this last group the send-off they deserve. The buses will leave Fayetteville First United Methodist Church at 6:30 a.m. and will travel Highway 54 west, turn right on Highway 85 north and then north on Highway 314 to the airport.
Honor Flight is a national organization that sponsors free trips to World War II veterans in order that they can visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Donations from local organizations and individuals make these trips possible.
The vets and their companions are flown to Washington, tour some of the sights and fly home late that same night, tired but, for the most part, exhilarated by the experience. |
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