Veteran's annual trip honors comrades
Caroline Lobsinger Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 6 months AGO
<p>Heron, Mont., resident Bud Wininger reflects on the soldiers he knew serving in the Marine Corps during World War II. One of the oldest veterans in the local Marine Corps League chapter, Wininger and more than a dozen family members again attended the annual Marine Corps birthday celebration Saturday. (Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER)</p>
SANDPOINT — The young men he served with — his friends — are never far from Bud Wininger’s mind.
Almost 70 years after the end of World War II, Bud Wininger said it’s his duty to remember his comrades. It’s why he’s a member of the local Marine Corps League chapter and why, for the past several years, that he’s made the hour drive from his home in Heron, Mont., to attend a celebration making the “birthday” of the corps.
“Camaraderie,” Wininger said of why he never misses the event. “Once a Marine, always a Marine.”
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