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Giving thanks for those supporting Honor Flights

To the editor:

At this time of the year “Thanksgiving” it is appropriate to reflect back a short few moths ago. The Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight competed two flights, May 7 and Sept. 17. Some 300-plus World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans participated in what most of them referred to “a trip of a lifetime”.

None of this would have been possible without all of the volunteers that have helped make this trip a reality. As the veterans have come from central and northwest Iowa, so have the necessary dollars come from central and northwest Iowa for theses trips.

In retrospect it is amazing where these necessary dollars come from: silent auctions, soup suppers, concerts, cookouts, memorials, freewill donations, activities from school children to senior citizens. These dollars and time spent come from the heart to help pay back these veterans who have given so much.

The Brushy Creek Area Flight has become more of a family or rather a team: the veterans, the fundraisers, the physicians, nurses, the fire departments, the guardsmen, the Fort Dodge Regional Airport personnel, the persons and organizations handling the registrations and those that helped at the information dinner, the media. The city of Fort Dodge, the Webster County Agricultural Center, the fine efforts of the communities of the veterans involved, the “everybodys” from each of the communities involved: all valued team members. A long and lengthy list, but each equally important. The Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight board of directors wish to thank all of the other team members for their efforts.

Two flights are planned for 2017: May 6 and Sept. 16. These flights are open to all World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War Veterans, male or female, all are welcome.

Again thank you all,

Brushy Creek Area Board members,

Lee Bailey, Orene Cressler, Peg Dettmann, Craig

Malloy, Russ Naden, Ron Newsum, Julie Reed, Mel Schroeder, Charlie

Walker, Marlene

Welander

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