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| Tango01 | 07 Mar 2017 11:47 a.m. PST |
…Special Journey. "Dave Fleischer is a 96-year-old World War II veteran from East Dallas. Just 21 when he joined the army, he still remembers hearing the bombs as he served a cook for a fighter squadron. "I was really scared at that time," he recalls. Fleischer traveled with a group of veterans to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans as part of the Soaring Valor program sponsored by the Gary Sinise Foundation. Sinise, known for playing roles in Forest Gump and Apollo 13, traveled with the veterans from Dallas. American Airlines chartered the flight with the crew volunteering their time. Veterans Affairs estimates that almost 400 WWII veterans, now in their 80s and 90s, are dying every day. Soaring Valor is working to preserve the stories of the veterans who served in WWII before it's too late…"
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