-Messenger file photo
Chance Copper, at right, looks over a book on the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C, at the Webster County Fairgrounds with his grandfather, Gilbert Copper, of Fort Dodge, during a banquet held for veterans who were going to be on the Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight. Chance Copper was going to serve as his grandfather’s guardian on the trip. Gilbert Copper served in the Army, seeing service in Burma.