2009-Oct-28 - WWII Veteran's Honor Flight
It was after 3AM last Friday night when I was checking my email to discover than my friend, Carol Magathlin who is the US Army 3rd Infantry Div's Adopt A Soldier Coord had emailed me. I immediately opened her email to read that there was to be an "honor flight" out of Savannah that morning and that if any of us (soldier sponsors) could be there to welcome home these veterans from WWII giving us the time and place.
To explain a bit, Carol and I have become old friends almost immediately, while only knowing each other just a few short years, and having only been in each other's presence about five times...but it's a connection that is lasting as we both care for the service people serving our nation. Carol, a writer for the local newspaper is credited with and organizes and administers the Adopt A Soldier program giving deploying 3rd ID soldiers the opportunity to have community support while over seas in the form of letters, care packages and support. I have been and continue to be a sponsor to one HERO currently on his 4th deployment, and sponsored four others along with this current a year and a half ago. This is the background so you will know why I got this email. If I had been THERE, I would have attended the Welcome Home gathering for these WWII Veterans.
My grandfather was a soldier in WWII serving under McArthur in the Solomon Islands. He was US Army and a radioman. I am proud of his service while I have never met him, the stories I have heard of him and pictures I have seen give great meaning to me in his efforts of patriotism in the face of tyranny!
When Carol sent that email, I immediately emailed her back of which she let me know via her Blackberry that she was in route to the airport RIGHT THEN...Oh how I envied her! To be able to visit the WWII Memorial with Veterans of that particular war would be such an honor for me. I knew it would be special to Carol and her honor as well. I can't brag enough on Carol, but then she's so modest...
Carol wrote a short piece for a few local newspapers about her trip. You can read it here!
Please pray for our miliatary who are deployed and serving all over the world. What an honor to serve them as they serve US~each of us in our great nation!
God bless America~home of the free...BECAUSE of the BRAVE!
blessings,
SisterTipster
