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Richard Lang, whose right leg was amputated, is escorted up the flight stairs by Marine First Sgt. Wade Jensen in May 2008 at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb. during an Honor Flight to Washington for World War II veterans. Bill Williams, whose company sponsored the event, advised him there was a steep set of plane stairs. "I made my big mistake," Williams recalls. "I said, 'We will carry you.' ... He said, 'Listen pal, I haven't been carried since Guam.'" Lang said he'd sit on his bottom and lift himself step by step. Williams didn't want it to seem that no one wanted to help him. A compromise was reached. Lang gripped the railing as a Marine in dress blues escorted him.](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/1140/assets/1369557289694218437485150X150.jpg "Associated Press
Richard Lang, whose right leg was amputated, is escorted up the flight stairs by Marine First Sgt. Wade Jensen in May 2008 at Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb. during an Honor Flight to Washington for World War II veterans. Bill Williams, whose company sponsored the event, advised him there was a steep set of plane stairs. "I made my big mistake," Williams recalls. "I said, 'We will carry you.' ... He said, 'Listen pal, I haven't been carried since Guam.'" Lang said he'd sit on his bottom and lift himself step by step. Williams didn't want it to seem that no one wanted to help him. A compromise was reached. Lang gripped the railing as a Marine in dress blues escorted him.")
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