Ed,

Thanks for your article. I just want to say I saw Mr. Holmes at Wal-Mart Saturday. He was so happy and was thanking me for talking him into going on Honor Flight. He was just like a child returning from Disney Land with tears in his eyes. He said he did not deserve the hero attention he got, and I said, "You are right, you don't. You deserve more."

He was showing all of his pictures he had developed to his friends at Wal-Mart with tears in his eyes and a smile on his face.

The Flight for August was canceled because lack of funds, but with the help of Charles Costello, District Eight Commander VFW, and Senior Vice Commander of Metcalfe County VFW, who went out to solicit donations from our banks, city and county governments and insurance companies and private individuals, we've collected over ten thousand dollars. If all the counties would do this we may be able to send the rest before it is too late. (There were several who passed away or became too ill to go on this trip.)

This was the biggest departure for the Veterans in our area so far, there were eight that went, and two became too ill to go. It took a lot of people to put this together, there are too many to mention, but I want to say thanks to all.

--Paul W. Kirby