HBO paying for vets’ trip to WWII memorial (AP)
NEW YORK – HBO is stipendiary to beam 250 veterans to pedagogue incoming hebdomad to meet the World War II memorial, congruent with the networks’ execute of a miniseries most the war.
The 10-part series, “The Pacific,” starts on the meshwork March 14. It’s a episode centering on the lives of U.S. Marines conflict the Asian in the consequence of Pearl Harbor.
The meshwork said weekday it is employed with the Honor Flight Network, an methodicalness that pays to instrumentation veterans to the nation’s capital. Courteney Monroe, HBO’s marketing chief, says that assemble has more than 9,000 veterans on its inactivity list.
The veterans module allow a 100-year-old man. Veterans from Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, metropolis and Orlando, Fla., module attain the trip.
American Airlines is stipendiary to control veterans from every of the cities eliminate for metropolis and Philadelphia, where they module be driven. Marriott Hotels & Resorts are swing them up.
The veterans module move in a wreath-laying start at the World War II credit on March 11. It module be filmed for after ingest on HBO.
The miniseries “is an awful commendation to veterans coverall and reminds us of the sacrifices they’ve made,” President said. “We rattling desired to ingest this possibleness to take these veterans and impart them for the sacrifices they’ve made.”
Tom histrion and Steven filmmaker are conception of the creation aggroup for “The Pacific,” meet as they were for the “Band of Brothers” miniseries in 2001. At that time, HBO paying to beam veterans to Normandy, France, for the execute of the program at the place of the D-Day invasion.
“This is a enthusiastic possibleness for a farm boy,” said William T. Hay, 85, who served on the USS Enterprise in the South Pacific during World War II. Hay, from Chana, Ill., most 100 miles westerly of Chicago, is ordered to attain the trip. Hay said he was a someone of Lt. Commander prince speechmaker “Butch” O’Hare, the struggle hero for whom Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is named.
Still serving, Hay said he’s volunteered to support whatever veterans on the activate who haw hit pain effort around.
“I’m ease kickin’,” he said.
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