VOLUME 21
OF FLORIDA
ISSUE 4
August 2018
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SENIOR LIFE Courtesy of Space Coast Honor Flight
Veterans, their guardians and volunteers pause at the World War II Memorial in Washington D.C. during their June 23 Honor Flight. They were joined by U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, far right, and his wife Katie.
Honor Flight builds camaraderie among veterans When you think of reunions, high school, job retirement or even a family reunions come to mind. With the Space Coast Honor Flight, its reunion has a different connotation. Usually, the reunion is 21 to 30 days after an Honor Flight. After that, it’s an ongoing relationship. Space Coast Honor Flight is a rather unique organization. It is dedicated to honoring the service and sacrifices of military veterans. Their dedicated mission is to take a group of qualified military veterans on
a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Washington, D.C. to visit most of the war memorials representing the wars in which these veterans served. The veterans are each accompanied by a guardian. Although it is referred to as a reunion of the trip 30 days earlier, Honor Flight is really a reunion of each individual soldier, sailor or airman with events and a war that happened 30 or 50 years ago. It all starts with an orientation at Wickham Park Senior Center in Melbourne two weeks before the trip to Washington D.C. Then, on the day of the trip, this group of 25 and their
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guardians gather at 1:30 a.m. for the beginning of a long and eventful day. The group of veterans and their guardians leave on a bus escorted by motorcyclists and police for the trip to Orlando International Airport for the flight to Washington, D.C. The trip ends very late that same night when the group returns to the Wickham Park Senior Center. Then, there’s the reunion meeting. In this case, that was July 1, when the veterans could share with friends, family, Honor Flight board members, volunteers and fellow veterans what the trip meant to them.
Floyd (Mac) McCarty, an 86-yearold Melbourne resident, served as a medic in a MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) unit in Korea on two tours. He liked visiting the Korean Memorial. “I really was impressed and touched by the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers,” he said. Several of the veterans mentioned this ceremony as one of their favorite events. Michelle Vidal, a registered
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