Special Honor For Mobile Area WWII Vets

Alabama Mobile More than 90 veterans are getting a free trip to visit memorials in Washington DC.

by Steve Alexander

Published: Tue, September 15, 2009 - 9:43 pm CST Last Updated: Tue, September 15, 2009 - 10:10 pm CST

MOBILE, Alabama - A group of about 90 World War II Veterans from the Mobile area are going on a free trip Wednesday morning to Washington DC.
The veterans will visit the National World War II Memorial and other historical sites.
The trip is courtesy of a group called "Honor Flight South Alabama."
The Honor Flight Network is a non-profit group that honors veterans for their sacrifices.
News Five talked to three veterans who live in the Spanish Fort area.
They spoke about lessons we can all learn from World War Two.
84 year old Howard Forshee said, "As an eighteen year old boy going off to service, I was part of a unified feeling in America. Every single decision was made on the basis of 'Will this help us defeat the enemy?' And I think America misses that sense of unity."
87 year old David Chichester said, "I think it's the fact that strangers can get together and unify and accomplish great things: ordinary people accomplishing great things because of the challenge. And I think we need to pat ourselves on the back that we could park our differences somewhere and get together and get the job done."
And 89 year old Lloyd Fremaux wonders what kind of world we'd be living in if history took a different turn.
Fremaux said, "If it weren't for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, we might have entered the war at a much later date, and I think had we had not entered the war when we did, that Britain could very well have been invaded by Hitler."
The Honor Flight leaves around 7:00 Wednesday morning from Mobile Regional Airport.

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