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Putnam County veteran shares Honor Flight experience with DAR chapter · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Putnam County veteran shares honour flight experience with dr Chapter.
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  Written by Shaw Local News Network, this article is being
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  Miles Crook of rural Putnam County shared his honor flight
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  experience with the Chief Senequine Chapter of the Daughters of
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  the American Revolution at their May second meeting. Crook traveled
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  to Washington, d C. On April seventh with seventy other
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  military veterans, their guardians, and doctors, nurses and assistance. His son,
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  Alfred Crook, served as his guardian on the trip. There
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  wasn't a detail left undone, Crook said of the experience.
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  The group departed from General Wayne A. Downing International Airport
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  in Peoria and was greeted by buses in Washington, ready
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  for a tour of memorials. Among the stops was the
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  Ewojima Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, where the group participated
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  in a Changing of the Guard ceremony and placed a wreath. Nearby,
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  they visited the Pentagon's nine Elevhance Memorial, which commemorates the
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  September eleventh, two thousand one attack on the building The
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  group also toured the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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  and visited several memorials on the National Mall, including the
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  Lincoln Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and
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  World War II Memorial. Another stop was the Navy Memorial,
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  located between the White House and the U. S. Capitol.
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  On the return flight, the veterans received music and letters
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  of gratitude for their service. The Chief Senequine Chapter will
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  present gifts and a Chapter honorarium in Crook's name to
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  Peoria Honor Flight. Crook, who served in the National Guard,
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  said the entire trip was well organized from start to finish,
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  including a police escort to the airport and a welcoming
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  return reception Following Crook's presentation, Chapter regent Jingai reported that
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  the chapter received eighteen awards at the Illinois d R
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  State Conference on April twenty fourth, twenty six. She also
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  noted that chapter members have donated one hundred and forty
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  items to veterans at the Lasal Veterans Home. The next
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  chapter meeting will be held at ten a m. Friday,
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  August twenty eighth at Henry's first Presbyterian churches, social room.
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  State Regent Maria Blinn will visit for information about the
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  Daughters of the American Revolution called eight one five eight
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  sixty six four two eight eight, or visit dar dot
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  org slash membership