John Rickerd of Woodstock shares his stories of the morning Marines planted the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. While he did not witness the flag being raised, he was a corpsman tending to the wounded during the battle. (Courtesy photo)
For World War II veteran John Rickerd of Woodstock, a four-day Honor Flight trip to Washington, D.C., gave him an opportunity to bond with other veterans and experience some memorials […]
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