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The Puget Sound Veterans’ Monthly | JUNE 2015

SERVING WHIDBEY ISLAND’S VETERANS, RETIRED MILITARY PERSONNEL AND FAMILIES

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It was clear that John Hunting hadn’t fully recovered from his cross-country adventure.

Three days after returning home to Oak Harbor from Washington, D.C., Hunting still seemed to be in the sort of daze one experiences from witnessing something too incredible to put into words.

“It was probably one of the most memorable things that’s happened in my life,” said Hunting as he sat comfortably in the living room of his apartment in the Harbor Tower Village retirement community. “I don’t know where to start because there’s so much.”

Hunting, 88, got a tip from a good friend about an opportunity for American veterans to experience the memorials of all military branches in Washington, D.C., in a way he couldn’t imagine.

Known as the Puget Sound Honor Flight, the program is designed to give veterans, particularly those from World War II, “one last mission.”

Only during this mission, the red carpet is rolled out.

At no cost to Hunting, he was able to catch a flight to Maryland, spend

two nights at the Baltimore Hilton hotel and visit all of the military ser-vice memorials in the nation’s capital over two days.

But it was more than just that.“From the time we got into the

airport people were greeting us and cheering us, photographing us and shaking our hands,” said Hunting, who served two years in the Army during World War II.

“When the plane was being backed up to get out on the runway here in Seattle there was an honor guard of Navy men in their dress uniforms all standing at attention and saluting, and people were standing out there on the tarmac waving flags.

“It was very touching.”Hunting, who served two years

in the Army, was the latest of three World War II veterans at Harbor Tower who have taken part in the special trip.

Harold Johnson, a Pearl Harbor survivor, was the first followed by Denny Lougheed, who convinced Hunting to fill out an application and experience it for himself.

Puget Sound Honor Flight, estab-lished in March 2013, is part of a network of similar nonprofit organi-zations from across the country that

share the same mission of recognizing American veterans for their sacrifices and achievements.

Given priority for the ceremonious trip are World War II veterans and terminally ill veterans from all wars.

Guardians, often provided, accom-

pany the veterans, paying their own way at a cost of about $1,000 apiece.

During visits to memorials in Washington, D.C., the veterans put their feet up while being pushed in a wheelchair.

They visit the Korean War Veterans

Memorial, Lincoln Monument, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington Monument and World War II Memorial, among others.

“It is a very humbling experience,” Lougheed said.

World War II veteran floored by D.C. experience

Ron Newberry photoPeter Jasis, administrative assistant with Harbor Tower Village retirement community in Oak Harbor, visits with John Hunting, seated, in the dining area three days after Hunting returned from his Puget Sound Honor Flight.

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This Memorial Day they decided to listen. The Whidbey Island chapter of the Military Officers Association of America organized a fire-side chat with three local World War II veterans at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station before Memorial Day.

“Given the fact that Memorial Day was right around the corner, what better way to set the patriotic spirit than to listen to the men who were there,” said J.R. Russell, a member of the association and an organizer of the event.

Here’s a little what the three veterans shared:

Col. Bill Clark, 97, served with the U.S. Air Force, for-merly known as the Army Air Corps. He joined before Pearl Harbor because he wanted to fly. He figured $75 a month and flight training was a good deal. Before World War II, he caught the tail end of what he called the “romantic days” of flying with open cockpits and

a white scarf fluttering in the wind. During the war he flew 50 missions over North Africa in a B-17 and sometimes a B-24, dropping 500-pound bombs on airfields and any other target that could be of use to the enemy.

Maj. Bill Pliska, 90, served with the U.S. Air Force as a crew chief. A newspaper clipping shows Pliska — just barely 18 — joining what was then known as the Army Air Corps. He remembers what he called the “10 days of silence” before the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. He was stationed at Saipan, and, in the days before the Enola Gay took off from nearby Tinian, everything on base seemed to stop, as if everyone was holding their breath, he said. After the war ended, he was part of the Berlin Airlift, an effort by the U.S. and its allies to deliver supplies to West Berlin. The capital city was located in a zone controlled by the Russians, who cut off highways, railroads and

canals hoping to drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city. Pliska remembers flying low to make drops, including sacks of candy for the chil-dren. Years later one of his neighbors in the U.S., origi-nally from Germany, remem-bers waving at the American planes as they dropped sup-plies.

1st. Lt. Bruce Mattson, 94, served with the U.S. Army as a footsoldier with the 84th Infantry Division. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge, the deadliest action ever fought by the Army with more than 100,000 killed. Adolf Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by pushing through the for-ested Ardennes to Antwerp. American units were caught off guard, and as Hitler pushed forward the Allied line took on the appearance of

a bulge. On Dec. 16, German armies launched a ferocious battle in the Ardennes in the midst of hellacious winter weather. Mattson was in the middle of it, part of a can-non company that operated 105mm howitzers. They dug

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of encouragement sent from Dwight Eisenhower to him and other troops. During his service, he stepped on a land-mine hidden under the snow and lost a foot. “I tell people I’ve had a foot in the grave for 70 years,” he said.

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Debra Vaughn photoLocal World War II veterans (from left to right) Bill Pliska, Bill Clark and Bruce Mattson shared tales of their service at a recent Military Officers Association of America event.

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“It’s funding dependent,” said Renee Peavey, who start-ed the Western Washington chapter with her husband Jim.

What touched Hunting most was a trip to Arlington

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“This is almost beyond description,” Hunting said. “This is a place of absolute, 100 percent silence. There is no sound.”

It took the experience in the twilight of his life for Hunting to understand the full signifi-

cance of what it meant to serve his country.

He was only 18 when he was drafted into the Army while living in Walla Walla. He entered his military ser-vice near the tail end of World War II, serving two years as a construction engineer in the Philippines and Japan, in 1945 and 46.

Out of the service at age 20, he got married, used his mechanical skills to find employment and settled in Grandview, where he and his

wife lived for more than 50 years. He spent 17 years as the transportation supervisor for the Grandview School District before retiring.

After Lois Hunting died in 2011, four days shy of their 60th wedding anniversary, Hunting sold their home and moved to Oak Harbor to be near his son Michael, a teacher at Oak Harbor Middle School.

He came to Harbor Tower about a year ago, befriending Lougheed and others, and learning he and Lougheed

served in the Philippines at roughly the same time.

Each Thursday morning at 9 a.m., the public is invited to visit Harbor Tower during a Veterans Coffee hour.

“We are what they call troublemakers around here,” Lougheed said before breaking into a laugh.

Hunting was glad Lougheed convinced him to take the honor flight.

It shed new light about his World War II service.

Less than 900,000 of the 16 million veterans who served in World War II still remain.

“I never really thought much about it until I took this trip,” Hunting said. “It kind of humbles you because you never really feel that important. I had one guy come up to me at the World War II Memorial and he says, ‘How does it feel to get all this honor?’ “I said, ‘I don’t feel like I’m worthy of it.’

“I was overwhelmed by all of the attention and honor we received.”

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More than a dozen homeless veterans in Island County will get some help with the rent thanks to 14 Housing Choice vouchers awarded by the federal gov-ernment.

This is the first time this

county received the vouch-ers, said Teri Anania, exec-utive director of the Island County Housing Authority. She planned to issue the first in May.

“It’s a start,” she said. “I’ve been vocal about get-

ting them on island.”The vouchers allow vet-

erans and their families to live in market-rate rental housing while the Veterans Administration provides case management services. A housing subsidy is paid

to the landlord directly by the local public housing authority on behalf of the veteran. The veteran then pays the remainder.

While Anania has pushed for the vouch-ers for years, she gave Congressman Rick Larsen credit for making sure some money for the vouch-

ers made its way into the latest appropriations bill.

The vouchers are badly needed in Island County, where homeless veterans are less visible than in places like Seattle, she said. Sometimes veterans are too proud to admit they need help.

“Veterans are reluctant

to come forward and say they’re homeless,” she said.

In order to apply for the vouchers, veterans must be receiving case management services and be referred by the VA. The closest VA community-based clinic is in Mount Vernon. Another is in Seattle.

The Island County Service Center for the Opportunity Council can help veterans get connected to the VA.

Vouchers to help with housing

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