Three World War II veterans from Hagerstown, Md., got a ride to the World War II memorial on the Oscar Wienermobile.

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The veterans were guests of Meg Galligan, who won Oscar Mayer's "Ride of Your Life" contest with an essay in which she said that if she got the use of the Wienermobile for a day she would take her friends to the memorial, The Washington Post reported.

So the veterans rode from Hagerstown into Washington in a 27-foot-long vehicle shaped like a hot dog.

David Shaw and Jack Stenger were in the Army Infantry in Europe while Peter Lowenhaupt drove a truck for the Army Air Force in the Pacific. The Post suggested that they were more excited for Galligan, a department chairman at Shepherd University in West Virginia, than they were for themselves.

"Boy, is she on cloud nine," Shaw told the newspaper "And she should be. This is probably the high point of her life."