Local veterans catch World War II flight to Washington

Berne Tri-Weekly News:

It was just after 4:30 a.m. on an October morning when a group of World War II veterans from this community left Berne to head to the Air National Guard field in Fort Wayne to prepare to board a plane to the east coast. The men, Don Moore, Melvin Bixler, Paul Augsburger, Justus Augsburger and Gareth Wiederkehr had been selected to make this year's North East Indiana Honor Flight Number Six.

Once they arrived in Fort Wayne, they were served a large breakfast. The veterans were then linked with volunteer guardians who were going to assist them in their tour of the World War II Monument and other war monuments in Washington, D.C.