They were just kids, not yet 20, when they were dropped in the middle of Vietnam to fight an unpopular war.
Forty-two years after the end of the war, local veterans traveled to Washington, D.C., as part of the latest — and last
— Honor Flight.
Making the trek on one of the four chartered jets, thanks to the Patriotic Productions, were Humphrey’s Leo TePoel, Dave Classen, Terry Huettner and Mike Korth, and Lindsay’s Alvin Korth, Rich Weeder and Raymond Krings.
Small-town boys who found themselves in Vietnam.
“That’s quite a change,” Weeder said, who served in the U.S. Army and was in Vietnam one year, from 1969-70 . “They put a gun in your hand and tell you to shoot anything out there.”
They are not ashamed to say they were scared at times