Vietnam Vets Remember-- Part 3: Memorials

Monday marks 49 Memorial Days since Pete Haley's return from the war and this month denotes 50 years since the fight that claimed his buddies' lives.

"I put a wreath on the monument in Battle Ground," he said when asked about memorializing his fallen friends.

Good Times This Past Weekend

THURSDAY, JULY 18TH

Movie "Lone Ranger"  then Antioch Taste of Summer.  The band B.B.I..  Cooling off at the Lodge and Wings, Etc.


FRIDAY, JULY 19TH

Movie "Pacific Rim."  Stormy Monday for drinks with Usual Suspects.


SATURDAY, JULY 20TH

Classic Boat Show at Freddie's Roadhouse in Fox Lake, Vietnam Traveling Wall in McHenry, McHenry Fiesta Days Art in the Park, Several bands playing at various locations, Town Tap, Polish Legion, After the Fox, Twisted Moose.


SUNDAY, JULY 21ST

Antioch Taste of Summer, Band 7th Heaven, Rain, The Lodge, Captain's Quarters and band Sugar High.  Chased by rain at both Antioch and Captain's, unfortunately, none of that rain fell at home.

Why I Like to Stay Around Home During the Summer.  --RoadDog

Earl Morse's Honor Flights

I came across an article in the American Profile magazine about Earl Morse, who has started up an organization called Honor Flight, which takes WWII veterans to the National WWII Memorial in Washington, DC, at absolutely no cost to themselves.

Morse is a retired Air Force Captain and a licensed pilot. While working at the US Department of Veterans Affairs medical clinic in Springfield, Ohio, in 2004, he asked a patient, 78-year-old WWII vet Leonard Loy, if he was going to visit the new memorial. Loy said he didn't have enough money. Morse was already planning on flying his father, a Vietnam vet, to DC to see the Wall. Would Loy care to come with them? An idea was born.

Morse founded the non-profit Honor Flight Network in 2005, and has since taken over 1000 WWII vets to the memorial.

This is a man who has accomplished a great thing.

You can find out more at www.americanprofile.com "Honor Flight" by Marcia Schonberg July 29-Aug. 4, 2007.

My cousin Graham, a US Navy pilot during the Vietnam War, was involved with mercy flights to get people to hospitals for operations who could not afford to do it, for many years. I'll have to contact him to find out more about what he did.

My Great Thanks To People Who Do Things Like This. -- RoadDog