World War 2 Memorial Monument Visit

I would like to thank our Auxiliary for making it possible to send two WWII veterans, Paul Hover and Don Mitchell, to Washington D.C., on October 17 to visit the WWII Monument at no cost to the veterans. I had the honor of serving as their Guardian during this one-day trip. We flew our of Detroit at 8:00a.m. to Baltimore and returned that night around 8:00p.m. There were approximately 35 WWII veterans in our group, including eight who were in wheelchairs. Unfortunately, the vast majority of that war’s veterans are already dead or physically or medically unable to make such a trip today.

As a reminder, WWII ended in 1945, 64 years ago. I had the privilege  of listening to a vet explain his experience as a Navy corpsman who was ordered off his ship during the D-Day landing in France on June 6, 1944. This army did not have enough medics. He showed me his scrapbook that he kept all these years. When we landed in Detroit that evening, the events of the day had taken a physical toll on the gentleman, and he could not remember his name.

Rob Hosken