When Southwest Airlines announced an Honor Flight was approaching Gate 17 with 53 Veterans, a crowd quickly formed to honor them. Love this!!!

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When Southwest Airlines announced an Honor Flight was approaching Gate 17 with 53 Veterans, a crowd quickly formed to honor them 🇺🇸🫡

ransomnote: The clip is set to the music, Mr. Red White and Blue. I placed the relevant lyrics excerpt below.

Mr. Red White and Blue Lyrics

Written by Coffee Anderson

It's the guts and it's the glory
A hundred stripes a hundred stories
It's the pledge of allegiance on the fourth of July
It's them hand written letters from home
It's the sleepless nights alone
It's his new born baby he left with his wife

[Chorus]
(Mr. Red White and Blue) lay down his life
(Mr. Red White and Blue) For these stars and stripes hey

[Verse 2]
From the fields of Indiana

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: honorflight; veterans

[ridesthemiles]

WHERE?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Attended one a few years ago for my dear step-dad (WWW/Pacific). It was amazing. He was so grateful for the trip.

[volare737]

I did a few of those, they are awesome—very powerful and uplifting!

[combat_boots]

I was once at the Baltimore airport when an Honor flight came in. we all gathered and stood to.

[Thank You Rush]

“”WHERE?””

My question also.....

[iontheball]

I was once at the Baltimore airport when an Honor flight came in. we all gathered and stood to.
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Me too. I was there a couple of times when they were caming back from overseas. One time a flight came in when my wife and I where on our way to Stuttgart Germany to visit our son-in-law and daughter and another time to see our Navy daughter off to Bahrain where she flew hellos during one of those many campaigns I have since forgotten its name.

[redfreedom]

The “where?” is likely somewhere in Indiana, as that’s the only real clue. It’s not DC, or it would be more recognizable.

I attended one last September. When we got to DC there was an extremely long line of people welcoming us from what appeared to be school kids K - 8, veterans, and other people. When we got back to Bismarck we again were met by hundreds of people and I shook the hands of the governor, a Senator, NG General and a host of others.

I recommend any veteran sign up for this. You do not have to be a combat vet or anything special, just a veteran. My flight was pretty much dominated by National Guard people that were never deployed overseas.

Everything is paid for except your transpiration to the airport where the flight takes off from, and then from that airport back home. Meals, hotel room, admission fees - it’s all paid for. In DC we were given a cop escort with the flashing lights and all that. One stop was the Capitol Building, others were memorials.

Like I said, sign up.

[Mr_Moonlight]

My Dad went on the 'Hero Flight' in March of 2010 to visit the WWII memorial on the National Mall. Dad was 84 at the time, a U.S. Navy Radioman who's ship saw action in the Pacific 1944-45.

His 'Hero Flight' coincided with the release of the Spielberg/Hanks miniseries "The Pacific", of which both spoke at the memorial gathering. Dad was even briefly interviewed by the local TV station, which aired it that evening.

Dad was absloutely thrilled and honored to have been chosen for the 'Hero Flight', just in time too, as several months later he became ill and sadly passed away in January 2011.

God Bless ya, Dad

[boycott]

Thank you. That was great.!

[airplaneguy]

looks like AUS(Austin airport)

[airplaneguy]

100% Austin airport

[PROCON]

I’m a 74 year old Vietnam vet who wanted to go to DC to the Wall but am too scared to fly anymore as I am a helicopter crash survivor and have only flown once since 1982.

[redinIllinois]

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[Vision]

I saw one too at BWI.

[cyclotic]

I’ve been there a few times when Honor Flights arrive. It’s cool when you can hear applause and it’s moving your way.

I’ve also been at the WWII Memorial to greet the veterans. Some of them were very emotional, others stone faced with memories, others cheering their parade.

I remember one man in a snappy suit with an OSS lapel pin.

One time there were three young girls dressed like the Andrews sisters greeting the hero’s. Another time Bob Dole was in a wheelchair at the entrance meeting his brothers.

[AppyPappy]

Take the train. See America.