ONE MORE ABOUT WWII VETS

Hey y'all... hugs, kisses...........'ya know.

I had told y'all about the great work that Louisiana HonorAir does in a previous post. Well, it seems that another WWII era reunion takes place way over in Monroe, LA.

Dang, I really love the WWII vets...and the Ko-rear vets...and the Vit-nam vets...and the Iraq-Afghanistan-(next hell hole to be announced) vets.

I came across this story and thought I'd tell y'all about it. The (usually worthless) Monroe News-Star told the story.

The Army Air Corps founded Selman Field in 1942 as the base in the country to train cadets in everything from pre-flight to advanced navigation. This year's reunion marks the 15th and last time the group will reunite. Organizers have said the declining number of Selman Field veterans forced an end to the reunions.

Before he arrived at Selman, McCarter served as an engineer and turret gunner in a B-24 flying out of northern Australia. The Mississippi native recalled from his Pacific days seeing gun barrels melt like butter from overheating, flying into storm clouds and coming back to America in the middle of the war on a ship carrying more than 10,000 soldiers.

He was recuperating from a bout of malaria in Illinois when the Army Air Corps let him choose his next assignment. With a girlfriend in Ruston and a mother in Jackson, Miss., McCarter chose Selman. Hailing from Minnesota, Homdrom trained and graduated from Selman in 1943. He remembered his time at the base as strenuous, filled with demanding tests on meteorology and navigating planes by the stars.

He would go on to fly 30 missions in Europe, including navigating a bomber during D-Day.

After the war he would be involved with entirely different missions as a Lutheran minister in South Africa. He spent 35 years of his life speaking Zulu and struggling against an apartheid government.

Dang...what heroes! I had a lot of them in my family...most of them are dead, but a couple still survive. In an odd way, I'm glad that those heroes went on to heaven before their sacrifices were neglected, misused, abused, and tattooed over by the morons they sacrificed so much for. Dang...What Heroes!