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← Older postsHelp Give Honor To Our Pacific WWII Veterans
Forever Young needs help getting 26 Pacific WWII veterans to Pearl Harbor, May 15-23, 2012. The seven-day trip of honor will cost $2,600 per veteran. This is an urgent mission because we are losing WWII vets at an alarming rate. Please help us thank …
Son of WWII Veteran Writes Song After Trip to Memorial
“When They Were Young,” by Dr. Rice Drewry Dr. Rice Drewry, son of a WWII B-24 tailgunner, wrote a song honoring his dad and other veterans. Drewry was inspired to write it after he went on a trip to Washington …
Commercial Appeal Chronicles Veterans’ Trip to Normandy
Memphis-Area Newspaper Tells of Veterans’ Trip Back to Normandy 67 Years Later
A Trip to Normandy
Thirteen WWII Veterans Return to Normandy, France to remember their fallen comrades and find closure from the war.
Navy Veteran Completes ‘First Pitch Trifecta’
Don Ballard threw out the first pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals. The 95-year-old WWII veteran played for the 1939 Johnson City Cardinals before the war.
A Letter from a Daughter
Elizabeth Drewry Responds to her Father’s ‘Trip of a Lifetime’ My emotional highlight of Forever Young’s April 2011 trip to Washington DC for World War II veterans was watching my Dad salute his fallen comrades as a bugler played Taps. …
Forever Young Needs Wheelchairs
Do you have a wheelchair you no longer need? Please consider donating it to Forever Young. We will arrange to pick it up in the Memphis-Metro area. Contact Diane: 901.299.7516 or diane@foreveryoungseniorwish.org. *Picture Courtesy of Channel on Flickr
May 2, 2011 – 3rd Annual Forever Young Golf Scramble
The 3rd Annual Forever Young Golf Scramble tees off May 23, 2011 at Windyke Country Club. Registration and lunch starts at 11:30am and the tournament begins at 1:00p. The cost is $125 per player or $500 per team. Golf …
The Today Show Features Forever Young
The Today Show on NBC did a feature on Forever Young’s April trip to Washington D.C.
One Last Trip to Normandy – Clarence, 88
Clarence, 88, dreams of visiting Normandy one more time. His infantry went through Normandy a couple days after D-Day.
