On Saturday, the 14th of October of this year, the local Veterans are among the selected for the scheduled participation on the Stars and Stripes Honor Flight.
They two planes booked for the transportation of the local veterans are set for departure from Milwaukee at 7 am, and bound for Washington, D.C, Dulles Airport, then later return to Milwaukee by 8: 30 pm, where the Franklin and Arrowhead High school dance teams will give spirit for the homecoming parade.
The Veterans will visit the World War II Memorial, Air Force Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and Vietnam War Memorial among many other sites while in Washington, D.C.
The Local Veterans on the schedule for the trip are:
From Eagle
- Ernest Kroeze, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Donald Ledrowski, Korean War, U.S. Army
From Muskego:
- Richard Cuccio, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Allan Benton, Korean War, U.S. Marines, rifleman
- Bill Honeck, Korean War, U.S. Army, artillery
- Ray Kleppin Jr., Korean War, U.S. Army
- Eugene Vaught, Vietnam War, U.S. Air Force
From New Berlin:
- Robert Leair, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Paul Ackerman, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Ted Rydzewski, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Bob Kensche, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
- Dick Gorsegner, Vietnam War, U.S. Marines
From North Prairie:
- George Miner, Vietnam War, U.S. Navy
From Waukesha:
- Bob Nettesheim, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Rodney Schultz, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Bill Sattler, Korean War, U.S. Navy
- Tom Rapp, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Gayle Smith, Korean War, U.S. Air Force
- Spencer Smith, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
- David Harris Jr., Vietnam War, U.S. Army
From Menomonee Falls:
- Jerome Foshey, Korean War, U.S. Marines
- Melvin Barenz, Korean War, U.S. Marines
- Francis Berndt, Korean War, U.S. Air Force
From Sussex:
- Al Wenzel, World War II, U.S. Air Force
From Brown Deer:
- Claud Stewart, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Donald Terhorst, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
From Shorewood:
- George Kuhagen, Korean War, U.S. Marines
From Mequon:
- John Finco, Korean War, U.S. Army, platoon sergeant
From Grafton:
- Thomas Keagy, Korean War, U.S. Navy
From Port Washington:
- Louis Bertoni, Korean War, U.S. Air Force, radio mechanic
From Thiensville:
- John Harrello, Korean War, U.S. Army
From Cedarburg:
- James Bourgeois, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Patrick MacGillis, Vietnam War, U.S. Army, lieutenant colonel
From Dousman:
- Robert Mund, Korean War, U.S. Navy
- Robert Walters, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Kenneth Ludwigsen, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Paul Rossmiller, World War II, U.S. Army
From Hartland:
- Brian O'Connor, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
From Nashotah:
- Michael Penneau, Vietnam War, U.S. Navy
From North Prairie:
- George Miner, Vietnam War, U.S. Navy
From Oconomowoc:
- Sidney Earsley, Korean War, U.S. Marines
Robert Haley, Korean War, U.S. Air Force
- Dell Grosser, Vietnam War, U.S. Navy
From Pewaukee:
- Harry Knight, Korean War, U.S. Air Force, B47 crew chief
- Joe Meylor, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Florence "Jo" Helgeson, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Mike Sloan, Korean War, U.S. Army
From Brookfield:
- Jerry Zebrick, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Hugh Koehler, Korean War, U.S. Air Force
- Alexander Bizefski, Korean War, U.S. Army
- John "Jack" Miller, World War II, U.S. Army Air Corps, radio operator and gliders
From Wauwatosa:
- John Mathie, Korean War, U.S. Air Force
- Paul Gaus, Korean War, U.S. Marines
- Alois Adamczak, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Charlie Wakefield, Vietnam War, U.S. Air Force
From Franklin:
- Edward Konopka, Vietnam War, U.S. Navy
- Norman Graham, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Paul Boucher, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Herbert Jarosz, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Lawrence Kipfer, Korean War, U.S. Army
From Greendale:
- James Arend, Korean War, U.S. Army, special services
From Greenfield:
- Joe Pavletich, Korean War, U.S. Navy
- Paul Hugo, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
- Michael Fedran, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
From West Allis:
- Leo Kartheiser, Korean War, U.S. Army
- Ronald Eagon, Korean War, U.S. Air Force
- Gary Lutz, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
- Jerry Buchkowski, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
- Andy Crowbridge, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
From Oak Creek:
- Dennis Brost, Vietnam War, U.S. Army
From St. Francis:
- Don Tomas of St. Francis, Korean War, U.S. Army
