Program Sponsors World War II Veterans' Trips To National Memorial
Veterans Day Came a little early this year for a group of World War II vets from North Carolina, aged 79 to 102. As CBS Sunday Morning contributor Bill Geist reports, they journeyed to see the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.
They were there because Jeff Miller, a local businessman in Hendersonville, N.C., started a campaign in March to send every World War II veteran in the country who wanted to see it.
"Sixteen million served in World War II. Now there's probably just a little more than 3 million alive," he says. "They're dying at a rate of anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 a day so, yeah, there was a lot of urgency."
After all, the memorial was built for them.
"I look at it this way," Miller says. "Everything good I have in my life is because of them — I mean everything. We wanted to take the veterans there to the World War II Memorial who had not been — that was the number one thing — and that had financial or physical limitations, or both.
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They were there because Jeff Miller, a local businessman in Hendersonville, N.C., started a campaign in March to send every World War II veteran in the country who wanted to see it.
"Sixteen million served in World War II. Now there's probably just a little more than 3 million alive," he says. "They're dying at a rate of anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 a day so, yeah, there was a lot of urgency."
After all, the memorial was built for them.
"I look at it this way," Miller says. "Everything good I have in my life is because of them — I mean everything. We wanted to take the veterans there to the World War II Memorial who had not been — that was the number one thing — and that had financial or physical limitations, or both.