LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Honor Flight Southern Nevada veterans stepped back into the 1950’s when they laid a wreath at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
“I felt good. I was glad to do it. To be an honor to do something like that,” said 90-year-old Frank Martinez.
Martinez, who served in the Army in the 1950’s, was one of 35 Korean War and Vietnam War veterans who took a recent trip to tour war memorials with Honor Flight Southern Nevada.
Navy medic, 92-year-old Paul O’Rourke told FOX5 he was “stopping bleeding” on the last night of the Korean War.
“We lost seven guys that night. You don’t forget. Anyway, it was a long time ago,” said O’Rourke.
Ninety-one-year-old Korean War veteran George Melanson, who lives in Boulder City, put his hand out to touch figures etched into a memorial wall.
“Think of all those guys you met and lost. It’s a big loss,” said Melanson.
The President of the Korean War Memorial Foundation has previously thanked Honor Flight Southern Nevada veterans for what they did during the war. He says they helped a country and people they didn’t even know, changed them, changed history and made America better.
Honor Flight Southern Nevada is a nonprofit that collects donations to send veterans to D.C. to tour their war memorials. Veterans don’t pay anything for the trip.
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