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American Legion
plans veterans’ visit
to WWII Memorial
By Bill Walsh
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Veterans of World War II, the youngest of whom is now 82 years old, are passing away at the rate of 1.200 men and women a day:
“I don't know how many [World War IT] veterans there are in Fauquier County,” Bob Brady told the Rappahannock News last week, “but I do know that there were six in your obituary pages in the last three weeks.”
It is particularly upsetting, the 16th District Adjutant of the American Legion said, that local World War II veterans might die without seeing the the Washington, D. C., memorial to their military efforts, and, he reckons, the vast majority of them have not.
Brady has teamed with Robert Talton, manager of the Wachovia branch on Broadview Avenue, to provide an Honor Bus , for loael veterans tomaJbl thewhariMrip to the nation’s capital to see the memorial and feel the gratitude of a nation for the sacrifices they made more than half a century ago.
The trip will originate at American Legion Fbst No. 330 in Culpeper and will stop for more passengers at the commuter parking lot cm Lee Highway near the Route 605 interchange just outside Warren ton. The trip is planned for Sunday, Oct. 19.
The bus will arrive in Washington at about 11:30 a.m. and lunches will arrive about noon. The group will tour the memorial for an hour or so, with plans to be back in Warren ton about 3:30.
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