From the Oct. 11, 2013, Boone County (Illinois) Journal.. By Benjamin Yount of Illinois Watchdog.
Older news, but I sure enjoyed the way it was written. I'll just write it as it appeared.
They pinched the Nazis in the mouth, rolled back imperial Japan in the Pacific then stared down communism for another 40 years.
No way a few barricades and some security guards were going to tell 90 World War II veterans from Illinois the government shutdown closed the World War II Memorial.
"This is their memorial, they waited far too long to see it," Tracey Rouse, president of Honor Flight Chicago told Illinois Watchdog on Wednesday. "To have them wait one other day is a shame."
The 90 veterans had been planning the trip to see the memorial for months, but Tuesday's federal government shutdown closed it and other federal parks.
YOU WORK FOR US. Illinois vets were unimpressed with politicians like U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, at the WWII Memorial. The group from Illinois, Rouse said, never thought about canceling the flight. In fact, Rouse said, the group of men in their 80s cheered from the bus as they got ready to battle anyone who told them the monument was closed.
After All, These Guys Had Stormed Ashore At D-Day In far Worse Conditions. --
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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