Multitudes honor WWII vets on Honor Flight

Photo courtesy of Dick Traill World War II Navy D-Day veteran Richard Ramsey gets a salute from Roanoke, Va., Boy Scout after Ramsey and his guardian, David Traill, arrived at the airport en route to a D-Day tribute at Bedford, Va., as part of a Southeast Florida Honor Flight trip June 5-7.

Photo courtesy of Dick Traill
World War II Navy D-Day veteran Richard Ramsey gets a salute from Roanoke, Va., Boy Scout after Ramsey and his guardian, David Traill, arrived at the airport en route to a D-Day tribute at Bedford, Va., as part of a Southeast Florida Honor Flight trip June 5-7.


Mary Kemper
Staff Writer

World War II Navy veteran Dick Ramsey said going on a recent Honor Flight for D-Day veterans was “better than coming home from the war.” The Port St. Lucie resident, 90, took the flight to Bedford, Va., and Washington, D.C., from June 5 to 7, along with his guardian, David Traill, a high school history teacher at Suncoast Community High School, Stuart. Both men said the trip, made possible by Honor Flight of Southeast Florida, changed their lives.

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