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a privilege to meet these troops right off the field of battle,” Gardner writes in a ‘thank you’ letter to Honor Flight. “They were waiting there to meet us WWII veterans, but we were proud, proud, proud to meet them.”

Volunteerspaytheirownway,and make sure the veterans want for nothing.

“If they need a cup of coffee, we buy it. If they feel like sitting down, we have wheelchairs for them. (“If you get tired,” a member of the medical team tellstheparticipants,“pleaseletus push you. We want to!”) They don’t pay for anything or have anything to worry about,”Ensey says.

WWII vet Ted Walker, a resident at C.C. Young, helped organize the meet- ing, but says he probably won’t ever see the memorial.

“I’ve been on the list to go the last couple times, but my health won’t let me. Cancer.”

Walkerwears a bolotiewith a goldpurpleheart.Hewasshotat Guadalcanal, he says. A Navy vet, he enlisted at age 18, and spent six years on the same ship. “It wasn’t all bad — in fact it was wonderful in a lot of ways. Six years with the same guys. You make friends. We had a reunion 30 years ago. We had them every year after that until we all got too old.”

Walker is sad that he can’t go on the Honor Flight trip, but it is satisfying to know that another WWII vet will get to travel in his place, he says.

Gardner called the experience an event he will remember for the rest of his life.

“Honor Flight made 35 old soldiers feel proud, feel worthy, and feel young again,” he says.

Older vets and those with terminal illness take top priority during the Honor Flightselectionprocess.Application formsareavailableonhonorflightofdallas.org. Applications to serve as a volunteer or a guardian on the trip are also available on the site.

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