One of the two District of Columbia Air National Guard fighter pilots sent on a potential suicide mission the morning of September 11, 2001, will share that experience Sunday morning at the 148th General Conference & Exhibition in Indianapolis.

What were they thinking? When the delegates to the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence and indicted King George’s government, they were publicly committing treason. Had things gone differently, the British Crown would’ve had a list of whom to execute.

Saturday is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, and NGAUS and the National Guard Educational Foundation are set to share the Guard’s role in the landings that began the liberation of Western Europe in World War II.