Well, one small token is the WWII memorial in Washington DC. There is a non-profit organization that is flying veterans to the memorial for a day to see this woderful sight. It is called Honor Flight. My grandfather, Harland White, aka Pop was on the 1st flight from the Gulf Coast here in Florida along with 101 other veterans. He had a ball that day! A local TV station here in town traveled with them on the flight and made a documentary out of the trip. I was lucky enough to go to the viewing on Father’s Day and see it alongside the veterans and their families. It was one of the most beautiful pieces I have seen. I know it had a special place in my heart of course because my Pop was in it, but it was truly moving. It touched me to hear these men and one woman tell stories from when they were in the war and seeing them connect like old friends, even though they were strangers. It aired tonight on our local TV channel and I was again brought to tears. These are truly some of the most honorable men and women of time. I am honored that Harland White is my grandfather, because he is a hero and a man of God.
I wanted to honor him today by sharing some old war pictures of the young stud. The beautiful lady is my grandmother, Eunice. I love you Pop!
Tom Brokaw states the following in his book ‘The Greatest Generation’, “At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific,” Brokaw writes, or they were back home in the United States working and striving to produce the weapons required to win the war.”
