Honor Flight Network gives veterans warm reception
November 8, 2011, 05:46 pm
The Honor Flight Network, an organization that honors aging veterans, recently flew a group of veterans to Washington D.C., where they were honored for their service in World War II with a reception similar to what they received upon their successful return to Midway at the end of the war, according to the Chicago Tribune.
One former Army Air Corps pilot, Wayne Erickson, said the experience was moving.
"That was really a wonderful experience,” Erickson told the source. "I never consider myself a hero but you get done with that and you feel like a hero."
Erickson completed 42 combat missions, all in the European theater, during World War II, 30 of which he flew before he was 21 years old. He told the source that in 1942, at 18, he joined the Air Corps voluntarily to avoid being drafted into the infantry. He had his share of close calls in combat, and counts himself lucky to have escaped the war without injury.
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