WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump treated four World War II veterans to an Oval Office meeting Thursday, fulfilling a birthday wish for 95-year-old Allen Jones and giving three other veterans age 100 and older a day to remember.
One of the men, 101-year-old Floyd Wigfield, of Cumberland, Md., managed to win a promise from the president for a return flight on Air Force One following June’s ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy. “We’ll work that out,” Trump said. “You’ll like Air Force One.”
Trump had met Jones at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention last year and Jones, of Cranston, R.I., asked to spend his birthday with the president. Trump looked happy to oblige, joking with the men and their families, and asking each one to say a few words.
Sidney Walton, 100, of San Diego, and a medic in the war, told the president he joined the Army to fight Hitler, prompting Trump to reply: “That was a good reason.”
