I am on the board of a charity called honor flight ky. We fly veterans to D.C. to visit their respective memorials.
The most incredible thing that I have experienced with this is the stories that if you are really lucky you might get to hear these guys tell!
I sat at a gentleman's house one Saturday morning for four hours as he recounted landing on Omaha beach, and then marching some
thirteen hundred miles. All the men he saw die, the friends he lost! He was knighted by France, and they flew him over for the fiftieth anniversary!
They offered him a home and the opportunity to stay in France. He had a shadow box that was about four feet by four feet that was full of all the medals
he had received! But as I listened in awe and questioned him time and again he would say, we just did what we had to do. nothing special I aint no hero.
These men were and are a special generation! There are four thousand stars on the freedom wall at the world war two memorial, each of those stars
represent one hundred service men and women that the united states lost during world war two. Freedom is most assuredly not free.
I pray my children know this and appreciate it!