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102nd Greater St. Louis Honor Flight on 79th anniversary of D-Day taking place today
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ST. LOUIS – A very special honor flight left from Lambert St. Louis International Airport early Tuesday morning en route to Washington, D.C.
The flight is taking dozens of veterans to visit war memorials is also commemorating the 79th anniversary Tuesday of the D-Day Invasion in Normandy, France. The flight left at 5:00 a.m. for the nation’s capital.
65 veterans were on board, 62 Vietnam veterans, and three veterans from World War II.
The group will visit the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the Vietnam War Memoria, and the Marine Corps Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima Statue.
Among those on the trip is 101-year-old Ralph Goldsticker. He was a B-17 bombardier on D-Day and was in the air for 14 hours on that fateful day. In fact, Ralph flew his first combat mission on D-Day.
All these years later, Ralph still has the pin that he pulled out to arm the very first bomb that he dropped from his B-17.
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“You say we saved the world – maybe we did.” Goldsticker said. “But we aren’t the heroes, you may just say to me that we did our job. There were 16 million that served in World War II, and we all did our job,” explained Ralph.
In addition to Ralph, FOX 2 also met Susan Garrett and Bob Windish, Sr. Tuesday morning before they left.
They are brother and sister and both served in Vietnam. Susan was a nurse and Bob was in an artillery division.
“Every name on that wall is someone’s relative, and I felt that very much when our wounded came in that some family was going to be notified either someone was wounded or had died,” Susan said.
Bob added, “The message is as a veteran speaking for all these guys thank you very much for honoring their service and remembering what we did. We appreciate that.”
FOX 2 also spent time before the flight left with the Gibson brothers.
The three brothers all served in Vietnam and are all going together to see the memorial.
“It’s just amazing,” LeRoy Gibson shared. “We get to go see the monuments that were built for us, for what we’ve done along with thousands and thousands of others alive and dead. It’s our chance to go see these monuments that they built on our behalf. And so it’s really a special day. Our families are all excited and supportive.”
After a full day in DC, the group should arrive back around at Lambert around 8:00 p.m. or 8:30 p.m.
We’re told they will get a rousing welcome home from, among others, Louie and the Blue Crew from the Blues!
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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