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<p>Photos by Steven Van Der Werff, BUMED<br><br>Editors Note: Even though Memorial Day is still a few days that didn’t stop Washington D.C. area Navy Medicine personnel from spending this past Armed Forces Day giving a hero’s welcome to WWII “Honor Flight” veterans from across America who visited our nation’s capital to visit the WWII Memorial and several others.<br><br>Of special note was 91 year old retired Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Loren “Devil Doc” Hellickson from Silver Spring, Maryland proudly wearing a green corpsman t-shirt, who shortly after graduating high school first saw action, while with the 2nd Marine Division, against the Japanese at Guadalcanal.<br><br>Honor Flights are dedicated to transporting to Washington, D.C. as many<br>United States military veterans as possible to see the memorials of the<br>respective war(s) they fought in at no cost to the veterans.<br><br>See the original post at <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/archives/8818">http://navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/archives/8818</a><br></p>
<br>Subjects: Navy Medicine Live Blog; Memorial Day; veterans; Hospital Corps; World War II;</div>
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