Jeff and I went to his parent's house last night for dinner and Grandpa Lane was there with such a cool story. The article below is from the Standard Examiner in Ogden, they interviewed him and published his story!! He was chosen to fly to Washington DC to visit the WWII memorial. He talked with excitement about it and said it was a REALLY long day, 4.5 hours there and 4.5 hours back!!

Roy vet recipient of Honor Flight
By RACHEL J. TROTTER
Standard-Examiner correspondent

ROY — Herbert Lane says he's no hero, but there are those who would disagree. The 85-year-old World War II veteran isn't sure why he was chosen by the nonprofit group, Honor Flight
Network, for a free trip to Washington, D.C., to visit the World War II Memorial today. But his son knows why. "He'll claim he's not one of the heroes, but they are all heroes," Ken
Lane said of his father and all the others who fought in World War II. He submitted his father's name to the Ohio-based Honor Flight Network in August 2007 after he noticed a flyer about it from a local newspaper.
Honor Flight's goal is to make sure as many World War II veterans as possible visit their memorial. Time is running out, because they are getting older and many are dying or find it too
difficult to travel, James McLaughlin, president of Honor Flight Network said, in a phone interview from Ohio. The group also wants to send Korean and Vietnam war veterans to Washington once the World War II veterans have had their turn.
Ken Lane was thrilled when he found out his father had been picked. "I just thought we weren't going to hear from them, it had been so long," he said. His father got a call from McLaughlin about three weeks ago offering him the trip and asking if he had a companion who could accompany him.
Herbert Lane has felt a wide range of emotions since that phone call. "I was surprised and then I
thought, 'Gee, that would be neat,' " he said with a smile. But he thought,"the old man isn't as young as he used to be," so he's glad to have his son going with him. He decided to take Ken, his oldest son, on the trip, because he left to go to war when Ken was only 6 months old. He didn't get home until the boy was 3.
Ken Lane said his father doesn't talk a lot about his war days, but he hopes that when they go to Washington he will open up. McLaughlin said that's common. When the veterans arrive at the memorial, it opens the floodgate of memories, and they often start talking, especially with the other veterans on the trip.
"The effect is simply amazing. It's an opportunity for closure," McLaughlin said.

Lane spent more than a year in Germany with the Air Corps and on the front lines in the
infantry near the end of the war. "I wasn't a hero, I was one of the lucky ones," he says.
Herbert Lane admits he's tried to think of those days in Germany"as little as possible. He marched across Germany with the 30th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division of the 3rd Army.
"I was one of the lucky ones. Yes, I had frontline combat, but others paid a bigger price," he said. He remembers soon after he arrived in Germany, the troops got a visit from Gen. George S. Patton, who stood only a few feet from Herbert.
"I still remember what he said," Herbert said. "He told us he was glad to have new
blood, and all I thought was, 'You aren't getting any of my blood!'"Ken Lane feels strongly
about the service of all veterans, but knows the price his father paid by not being able to be with or communicate with his family for three years.
Herbert Lane keeps a handful of photos of himself from World War II in a family album.