WASHINGTON (KELO) — Army veterans Frankie and Joe Laird of Sioux Falls will celebrate 57 years of marriage on June 14.
“Nobody I’d rather spend any time with,” Joe said Tuesday at the Marine Corps War Memorial in northern Virginia.
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Their wedding anniversary is also the Army’s anniversary, and the branch has a big one in 2025: 250 years. The Lairds experienced the memorials of northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. Tuesday alongside other honored veterans; Midwest Honor Flight, a nonprofit organization based out of Iowa, brought the group to the area. Joe’s time with the Army between 1965 and 1989 included the fall of Saigon, and the trip to Washington took place just six days after the 50th anniversary of April 30, 1975. Nearly all of the 85 honored veterans on the trip, including Joe and Frankie, served during the Vietnam War era.
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