Wisconsin Veterans Take Flight For Historic Memorial Day Commemoration

CBS Minnesota

Updated on: May 27, 2025

A group of Wisconsin veterans commemorated Memorial Day by doing something they hadn't done in more than 50 years: riding in a helicopter.

"This is relaxing," Ken Seeger, an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, told WCCO News. "You have to wonder how in the devil we ever got back here."

Seeger was one of 11 Vietnam vets who took turns taking flight. They first carried a flag around town and then they laid two wreaths at a pond in Pioneer Park.

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