A local pilot and serviceman is being remembered on this Veteran's Day, one week after he died in a UPS plane disaster.

Rich Wartenberg was one of the crew members killed last Tuesday in Louisville. Advertisement

Rick Hyland flew planes with Wartenberg during operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004.

"It was an honor to fly with Rich, it was an honor to serve with Rich," Hyland said. "Being in the military was just important to all of us. And I know it was important to Rich."

The two pilots flew US service members injured in combat, sometimes seriously hurt by IEDs, back to hospitals in Germany.

All of us were just so proud to be doing that mission, when we got those patients on board our airplane, we had a purpose and we really knew how important it was to get those people back as quickly an

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