An 87-year old Carmel resident made an Honor Flight to Washington DC this weekend. Mario Antoci, an army veteran was among 90 other veterans and their guardians who went to visit the World War II memorial on Saturday.
The National Honor Flight Network was created in 2004 by a retired Air Force physician assistant to allow any veteran who wanted to make the one-day trip to the monument the chance to view the memorial in their honor. Guardians pay their own way.
There are more than 70 Honor Flight chapters in the country and more than 81,000 World War II, Korean and Vietnam veterans have made the trip to the nation's capital.
Antoci enlisted without his parents knowledge and told the draft board he was 18. He spent the last five months of his deployment as a prisoner of war in Germany.
