Longtime Leoti Resident Dick Sheets Honored with Operation September Freedom Flight
Left: Dick Sheets slings an arm around volunteer pilot John Cyrier, a Texas state representative. After the flight, Sheets gave Cyrier his World War II ballcap. Photo courtesy Becky Miller
The Second World War was arguably the defining event of the 20th Century. The scope of the loss of life is so enormous, in fact, that estimates vary by as much as 30,000,000 people. Read that again. The variance is 30,000,000 people.
Representatives of the Imperial Japanese Government signed the Instrument of Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945, bringing the conflagr…
