Story by Steve Hart, Hunter Army Airfield Public Affairs
Twenty-five Veterans of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War received a warm and respectful send-off from Hunter Army Airfield in a ceremony Nov. 2 prior to the Veterans boarding a charter bus that took them to Washington, D.C., to tour the various war memorials and other sites in their honor.
"It's always humbling to stand in the presence of greatness," said Lt. Col. Ken Dwyer, Hunter Army Airfield commander, from the podium to the Veterans. "There are no words to express the thanks that our country owes you."
World War II Veteran Euel Akins, 98, described the sentiment in Hunter Army Airfield's Tominac Fitness Center as "amazing and humbling."
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