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SmugMug > keywords > honorair > Retired Colonel Clifford A. Poutre returns to Asheville Regional Airport (NC) after his first visit to see the National WWII Memorial via "HonorAir" on Sep 24, 2006. Col Poutre at 102 years old was the oldest vet in the group of some 200 to make the trip from Hendersonville, NC. He was at one time in charge of the Army Signal Corps pigeon program, up through the early days of WWII.
SmugMug > keywords > honorair > "Welcome home; we're proud of you!" A Henderson County (NC) WWII vet, arriving back home from his first visit to the National WWII Memorial via "HonorAir", returns a salute from local Cub Scouts who were on hand as part of the reception committee at Asheville Regional Airport. Sep 24th, 2006.
SmugMug > keywords > honorair > Wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. The Henderson County (NC) "HonorAir" vets who got to visit their National WWII Memorial on Sep 23 & 24, 2006, were given the opportunity to lay an HonorAir wreath at the Tomb before they left Washington. North Carolina Congressman Charles Taylor (center, bent over at wreath) assists the vets at the ceremony. (See www.honorair.com)
SmugMug > keywords > honorair > Changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery, Sep 24, 2006.
SmugMug > keywords > honorair > The Tomb of the Unknowns, Arlington National Cemetery, Sep, 2006.
SmugMug > keywords > honorair > A Hendersonville, NC resident and WWII vet reads about himself and the 200 other Henderson County vets who were treated to their first-time visits to the National WWII Memorial, courtesy of their fellow citizens and businesses back home, in his local newspaper during the weekend of Sep 23 & 24, 2006.
SmugMug > keywords > honorair > There's no mystery as to what this WWII vet did during the war. He's from Hendersonville, NC, and was part of a group of 200 WWII vets that were given free flights to the National WWII Memorial in Sep, 2006, as a "thank you" from the local residents and businesses back home. http://www.honorair.com
SmugMug > keywords > honorair > A Henderson County (NC) WWII vet waits for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial volunteer to make a tracing for him from the Wall during the first ever "HonorAir" trips to visit the National WWII Memorial. Jeff Miller (in blue shirt, at left), a businessman from Hendersonville, NC, organized the HonorAir flights.
SmugMug > keywords > honorair > One of the 200 Henderson County (NC) WWII vets, who were flown by "HonorAir" to the National WWII Memorial in Washington, DC, courtesy of the folks and businesses back home, on Sep 23 & 24, 2006. The "Field of Stars" is visible behind this vet. Each star on the wall represents over 100 American servicemen and women killed during WWII. There are 4,000 stars on the wall.
Retired Colonel Clifford A. Poutre returns to Asheville Regional Airport (NC) after his first visit to see the National WWII Memorial via "HonorAir" on Sep 24, 2006. Col Poutre at 102 years old was the oldest vet in the group of some 200 to make the trip from Hendersonville, NC. He was at one time in charge of the Army Signal Corps pigeon program, up through the early days of WWII.
> Retired Colonel Clifford A. Poutre returns to Asheville Regional Airport (NC) after his first visit to see the National WWII Memorial via "HonorAir" on Sep 24, 2006. Col Poutre at 102 years old was the oldest vet in the group of some 200 to make the trip from Hendersonville, NC. He was at one time in charge of the Army Signal Corps pigeon program, up through the early days of WWII.
Retired Colonel Clifford A. Poutre returns to Asheville Regional Airport (NC) after his first visit to see the National WWII Memorial via "HonorAir" on Sep 24, 2006. Col Poutre at 102 years old was the oldest vet in the group of some 200 to make the trip from Hendersonville, NC. He was at one time in charge of the Army Signal Corps pigeon program, up through the early days of WWII.
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