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Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Jack. A. Jackson, who served as a pilot in the European theater during World War II.

In his decades-long career, James A. Lovell Jr. served in the U.S. Navy, and was most notably known as an astronaut in NASA’s Apollo 8, 11 and 13 missions.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Sidney Bovey, who served as pilot during World War I and invented the Bovey pyramid spark plug.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Daniel V. Borah Jr., who served as an A-7B Corsair pilot during the Vietnam War.

A true jack of all trades, Herman Carl Abelein Jr. served a remarkable and multifaceted 28-year career in the U.S. Navy that brought him all over the world, including to Japan, Vietnam and Egypt.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran James W. Tompkins, who has made a career flying aircraft in both the military and civilian worlds.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Wayne Burkes, who served for 38 years and was a pilot, Veteran advocate, and life-long public servant.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Iris Cummings Critchell, who served in as a Women Airforce Service Pilot during World War II.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Air Force Veteran Thomas Frederick Seebode, who served as a pilot from 1960 to 1987 and earned a Silver Star.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Air Forces Veteran Violet Clara Thurn Cowden, who served as a Women Airforce Service Pilot during World War II.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Veteran Jaden J. Kim, who deployed multiple times as a pilot to Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Marine Corps Veteran Robert R. Norman, who served as a pilot in the Pacific during World War II.