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May 27, 2016
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Memories soar aboard Honor Flight
By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcmedia.com
Honor Flight Northeast Indiana’s Flight No. 19 carried 83 veterans to the nation’s capital April 27. Ben Clay, of Fort Wayne, was not among those honored. Instead, Clay helped to honor 50 World War II veterans and 33 who returned from the Korean War. Clay made his ninth trip as an Honor Flight volunteer. He still regrets that he could not wear the uniform. “I tried to get in the Marines right out of high school and got rejected because of medical problems,” Clay said. “I have a son and a grandson, both in the Marines. I respect these veterans. They went through an awful lot. I can’t imagine kids today, 17 and 18, going off to fight like they did. They came back and never mentioned a word.” Like others who have not been to war, Clay’s
Dennis Bridges of Kendallville serves as a guardian for World War II and Korean War veteran Jack Bridges, of Leo. The Honor Flight veterans and guardians visited the Korean War Veterans Memorial and other memorials in Washington, D.C. PHOTOS BY GARTH SNOW
Honor Flight Northeast Indiana board member Tom Meyers of Roanoke places a flag at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., to honor Korean War veteran Eugene Esposito of Fort Wayne, who died in October. The flag was to be given to Esposito’s daughter, Karen Cappadona of Fort Wayne.
impressions come in part from documentary films. The veterans help him to match faces and names with those impressions. Some veterans will talk
about the war. Some will not. “They keep pretty quiet,” Clay said. “You don’t want to pry. If they want to talk, they’ll talk. And some get pretty
emotional.” “I knew one that was a survivor of the [USS] Indianapolis,” he said, referring to the July 1945 torpedo attack that claimed
Film fest will have fans Hobnobben with artists
Jonah Crismore wants Hobnobben Film Festival visitors to experience Fort Wayne while they experience 75 films. He admitted to being “both optimistic and conservative” when he estimated that 3,000 to 5,000 people will visit four downtown venues from June 16-19. Crismore, the executive director of Fort Wayne Cinema Center, traveled to other film festivals as he drew up plans for the local celebration of cinema. An Inspire grant from the Foellinger Foundation sponsored his travels. “I went all over the country to different festivals, different theaters, and the whole point was to be inspired, and to come back and do something big in Fort Wayne,” he said. He liked the atmo-
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Since its first flight in 2009, HFNEI has carried almost 1,300 World War II veterans to Washington, D.C. HFNI’s Flight No. 20 departed from Fort Wayne on May 25. For more information, visit hfnei.org. For more background on Honor Flight Northeast Indiana and more photos of Flight 19, visit infortwayne.com.
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Page B3, 5-7 sphere that he found in neighboring Michigan, at the Traverse City Film Festival. “What we truly are trying to do is create access between the community and filmmakers,” Crismore said. The word “hobnobbing” kept popping up among planners. “We thought it would be fun to play with that,” he said. The misspelling is intentional. “We’re very much talking about a Google approach, where it’s not a true word and people can take it and make it into whatever they want it to be.” Filmmaker Michael See FILM, Page A14
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Cinema Center will be one of four venues during the Hobnobben Film Festival. Executive Director Jonah Crismore said the building at 437 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne, has been home to Cinema Center for 19 years. “It’s amazing that one of my biggest struggles is to just get people to know that we’re here. We’ve been here a long time,” he said.
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