With more than a dozen “honor flights” of war veterans to Washington D.C. scheduled throughout the summer this year, one 100-year-old World War II veteran says the flight he took in the spring put a check mark on his “bucket list.”
On a Saturday morning in late April Freddie Stachoviak was one of the 114 veterans on the “Mission #79” flight out of Milwaukee. But he was the only former soldier who was a member of what is called the Greatest Generation, the men and women who helped win the second world war.
Very few are left, the organizers of the honor flights say.
Honor Flight Network is a non-profit program dedicated to transporting United States military veterans to Washington, DC, to visit
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