Long-time La Grange resident Chester Lacey was honored on April 10 for his service during the Vietnam War by Honor Flight Chicago, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that flies veterans — free of …
Air Force Veteran Chester Lacey, who served during the Vietnam War, is welcomed home at Midway Airport after being part of an Honor Flight Chicago trip to Washington, D.C.
“It was very exciting, we were very proud of my dad,” April Hill, Lacey’s daughter said. “It felt good; it was a blessing.” Meffley said that Wednesday’s flight brought the total vets served to a little over 10,700, the vast majority being World War II vets, about 6300. Twenty-three hundred Korean vets have made the flight and just over 2100 Vietnam vets have flown. And though the World War II vets are rapidly leaving the scene, Wednesday’s flight did include three from the nation’s “Greatest Generation.” One of the vets served in George Patton’s Army in Europe.
“It’s different on every flight, but on this one, we first stopped at the Marine Corps Memorial, and from there we went to the World War II Memorial, where we have a nice ceremony for all the vets,” he said. “Then we went down to the Mall to the Lincoln Memorial, where the Vietnam Wall is and where the Korean War Memorial is. While we were there, we actually had a performance by the Army Drill team.
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