Honor Flight Chicago-- Part 2: So Far, 8,730 Chicago Area War Heroes Honored

"Since our founding in 2008 we have honored 8,730 Chicago Area war heroes," said Doug Meffley, co-director of Honor Flight Chicago.

Bob Misevich, an Army combat medic in the Vietnam War, grew up in Chicago in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.  He volunteered to serve in Vietnam at age 21.  he is now retired after working for Sears for 40 years and lives in Naperville.

"After 52 years, (the experience of serving in that war) never left me," he says.

When he first arrived in country, he remembers getting off a helicopter and seeing some body bags loaded on the same helicopter.  he later found out that one of the body bags contained the body of the medic he was replacing

Misevich participated in an Honor Flight this past July.

Vietnam Medic Receives Medal of Honor-- Part 1

From the June 14, 2017, Chicago Tribune "Medic 1st to get Medal of Honor from Trump" by Mike Householder, AP.

Members of Army medic James McCloughan's unit in Vietnam called him "Doc."

Now, these soldiers, several of whom McCloughan saved during the ferocious days-long Battle of Nui Yon Hill in 1969 will call him Medal of Honor Recipient.

James McCloughan, 71, of South Haven, Michigan will become the first to receive the nation's highest military honor from President Donald Trump.  "I feel honored to be able to accept this for the 89 men that fought that battle.  Those were the U.S. combatants, dozens of whom were killed, wounded or missing in the 48-hour battle fighting hundreds of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong.

The Bravest of Brave.