First Coast Honor Flight takes off for inaugural flight Saturday

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First Coast Honor Flight is simply a portion of the Honor Flight Network.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The First Coast Honor Flight sent its archetypal level of veterans to Washington, DC Saturday morning.

25 veterans, 25 guardians, and six Honor Flight unit members are connected board. There is 1 World War II veteran, 7 Korean War veterans, and 17 Vietnam War veterans connected Saturday’s trip.

The Honor Flight sends veterans connected a once-in-a-lifetime travel to Washington, D.C., for a escaped time trip. On the trip, the veterans sojourn their ain memorials, conscionable different veterans, and bespeak connected their work to the United States.

Saturday’s formation is the archetypal from the First Coast branch. The formation departed from JAX’s main terminal. The radical volition instrumentality to the airdrome Saturday nighttime aft the trip.

The nationwide Honor Flight Network hosts these trips to amusement appreciation for the heroes successful these wars.

First Coast Honor Flight volition big much opportunities for these trips passim the year.

The enactment is looking for much Guardians for aboriginal trips. Guardians assistance the veterans passim the time trip. You tin use connected First Coast Honor Flight’s site.

If you cognize a seasoned who would beryllium funny successful this trip, the exertion is disposable connected the website arsenic well. Top precedence is fixed to terminally sick veterans from immoderate war, World War II Veterans, Korean War Veterans, Vietnam Veterans, and past those from aboriginal conflicts.

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