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Central Missouri Honor Flight helps a couple veterans reunite…50 years later.
Organizer Steve Paulsell says the two vets from Kirksville did not recognize each other from their time in Vietnam. But then they remembered a promise they’d made.
“He said before he and I parted, we took a dollar bill and tore it in half and agreed that we would both carry that half a dollar bill for the rest of our lives in memory of our third buddy that was killed in action and our service together in Vietnam,” says Paulsell.
Those halves of a dollar bill were on the same Honor Flight recently as the vets went to see their memorials in Washington DC.
“We’ve got a photograph of them putting that dollar bill back together underneath the name of their buddy on the Vietnam War wall,” he says.
The organization’s last honor flight of the year lifts off Tuesday for Washington, D.C. A group of 108 veterans from World War Two and the Korean and Vietnam Wars will be going. Central Missouri Honor Flight is accepting applications for its 2020 trips.
