Arlington Heights Veteran to serve as guardian on Honor Flight

Local veteran, Greg Padovani, will serve as a guardian to World War II veteran Morrie Bishaf on the upcoming Honor Flight McHenry trip to the war memorials of Washington DC.  

Greg is a veteran of the US Army Medical Service Corps.  He began his military service 1975 as a medical platoon leader in the 2nd Armored Division at Ft Hood, Texas and retired as a Major serving in an US Army Reserve General Hospital Command.

Learn more about McHenry Honor Flight and Read Veteran Profiles. 

In Arlington Heights, Greg serves as Chairman of the Veterans Memorial Committee of Arlington Heights – the group that has re-built Memorial Park and includes the distinctive Eternal Flame bronze sculpture.  Memorial Park offers commemorative bricks for veterans and their families. Each brick can be inscribed with a summary of the veterans military story. 

Over 600 of these bricks have been installed at the Park including a Fallen Heroes section for any veteran who died in the service of our Nation. The Fallen Heroes section includes special bricks for Arlington’s Fallen Heroes – the 58 young men from our town who died in the service of our Nation from the Civil War to Afghanistan.  

Detailed information on Memorial Park can be found at:  www.ahpd.org/ and click on the “Memorial Park” icon on the lower left.