Veteran Salute

Retired Army Colonel John Buckley said that before he deployed for the first time he was anxious to see if his skills would hold up in combat.
He said he looks back now and thinks how foolish he was since he knows now that war is extremely complex and dangerous.

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Troops thought they would be headed home from WWII in no time after two atomic bombs were dropped. They just knew Japan would surrender, but instead, they were notified the war was on again.

One man who was on the last bombing mission of the entire war shared his story with KSN.

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“When I got into basic training, I realized this is a whole different type of world that I was in,” Air Force Veteran Timothy Britt said.

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As we know here in Kansas, weather can affect many aspects of our lives, but have you ever considered how key it is on a firing range? Veteran Roger Patrick showed us just how the meteorology section ensured units in the field artillery could hit their targets.

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The country needed replacements to go overseas in World War II and Bill Taylor was one of those soldiers. Taylor said they were told they’d be in the Army for one year, but months later Pearl Harbor was attacked.

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When George Sanders showed up to sign up for the draft, a woman told him his notice was already in the mail. He went on to become part of the Americal Division and says they went where they were told to go.

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Thorne Longsworth was in a college Infantry ROTC program just four days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But he knew he didn’t want to go to fight on the ground. He went on to become a pilot, and he would have so many close calls along the way.

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Alice Gaines was the first in her family to go to college, but she was certainly not the first to sign up to serve. Her father was in the Navy, her brothers were in the Army, and they wanted their sister to find a different branch.

Gaines landed in the Air Force.

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A Wellington veteran, who survived arguably two of the most brutal battles of WWII, says when he arrived back on U.S. soil, he felt lucky to be alive.

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A veteran, who now calls Wichita home, says he volunteered to serve so he could go to Alaska. He was able to accomplish that lifelong goal, and he saw much more of this country and the world in the process.

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