Final Honor Air flight scheduled for April 8
Four of those veterans taking flight in April are from Farragut. Of those, Chester Fox, a Marine Corps veteran, and Glenn Sisco, who served in the Navy, are hoping to see the Vietnam Memorial.
“I’ve seen pictures of [the memorial], and I hope I can stand it to see all that,” said Fox, who added he served in “all of ’67” in Vietnam.
“I’ve never been to the memorial,” said Sisco, who served in Vietnam from 1962 to 1966. “I have a couple of friends who were killed the war. I hope to see their names on the memorial.
“As a service person, we’re so fortunate to walk up to the memorial,” he added. “Some others couldn’t. It’s humbling.”
In the Marine Corps, Fox was a combat engineer.
To gain a seat on the Honor Air flight, “my oldest boy, he flies for American Airlines,” Fox said. “He arranged it some way. He’s hoping to join me there.
“I hadn’t even heard about [Honor Air flights before], but it’s pretty exciting,” he added.
For Sisco, “my wife kept encouraging me to go [on the flight],” he said. “I looked it up and found out it was going to be the last one.”
So, he filled out an application and was chosen.
