Another call of duty: KC area veterans flown to WWII Memorial to honor their fallen comrades

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  • Author(s): By:Brian Burnesâ â  â photos by keith myers
  • Source:
    Kansas City Star, The (MO), November 1, 2009 News, 9pp
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    • Abstract:
      T he operation had been planned for weeks. Organizers held a pre-mission briefing days before. Forty volunteers received regulation apparel and instructions to be in place by 5 a.m. But many deployed before that. At 4:40 a.m. several of them â all Kansas City area veterans of World War II â stood in the lobby of Terminal A, supervising the opening of the newsstand near the U.S...