Longtime Evergreen Park resident Wally Prim’s experience with Honor Flight Chicago in 2017 was a momentous journey.
Wally Prim will never forget the day a South Korean family ran up and hugged him in the concourse of Dulles Airport in Virginia, happily yelling “G.I., G.I.” “That brought tears to my eyes,” said Prim, who served in the Army in the early 1950s in Korea and Japan and remembered enough Korean to exchange pleasantries with the parents and kids. At least he thought he did. “I tried some of my Korean on them and they laughed and laughed” said Prim, 91.
Evergreen Park resident Wally Prim discusses his experience on Honor Flight Chicago during a recent program at Evergreen Park Public Library. Moline and other organizers with Honor Flight have several missions, including Operation Locate a Hero, where they recruit potential Honor Flight participants and encourage them to fill out applications at American Legion and VFW posts. After his flight, Prim became “one of our biggest cheerleaders,” Moline said.
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