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Courtesy of the Emerald Coast Honor Flight Network, WWII veterans from Pensacola, Florida, were given the opportunity to visit DC’s newest memorial — World War II. The group of 103 men and women were escorted by an all-volunteer staff. In addition, U.S. Representative and Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Jeff Miller, was also onboard the Pensacola flight and spent the day with the group. To date, the Honor Flight Network has transported over 22,000 veterans from around the country to visit the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Photos © 2011 by Katherine Ruddy.
After flying into Reagan National Airport, the Emerald Coast veterans arrive at the World War II Memorial.
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Truth is King| 4.13.11 @ 2:34PM
Thank you and God bless you for posting this. I would love to hear the speech given by the 99 yr. old veteran Willie Young pictured here.
And too bad Bob Dole couldn't be there. Didn't he have much to do with the building of this Memorial? Last I heard he was in the hospital but that was some months ago. He's in my prayers.
God bless to him, and all the WWII Veterans.
"Greater love than this has no one, that
someone should lay down his soul for his
friends." Jn. 15:13.
Tina B| 4.13.11 @ 6:38PM
Amen.
NEGRO X| 4.13.11 @ 6:43PM
Obama wants the heros dead because the are a burden on the system.
Dee See| 4.15.11 @ 11:36PM
We wonder how much awareness there is among
these vets of the extent to which the WWII
national memory project is being used to
cover and draw attention away from our last
4 decades of open, Globalist 'Free Trade'
EUGENICS and TREASON viz a viz
the RED China sellout operation.
Creative Recreation | 8.10.11 @ 10:23PM
is good