{"id":253,"date":"2025-10-13T02:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:38:07","slug":"honor-flight-to-depart-fresno-with-veterans-from-across-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor flight to depart Fresno with veterans from across the Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; This time tomorrow, 68 Valley veterans will be heading to Washington, D.C., to visit memorials built in their honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 33rd Central Valley Honor Flight will depart from Fresno early Monday morning, including Kim Pennington of Sanger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 78-year-old Vietnam War veteran will participate in the three-day trip of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Pennington won&#8217;t be experiencing this Honor Flight alone, he will also be traveling to the East Coast with his son, Kyle, who will serve as his guardian on the trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Monday&#8217;s flight will also include veterans representing 17 hometowns across 8 counties from the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The oldest veterans include two 96-year-old Korean War veterans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Honor Flight is expected to take off from Fresno around 6:30 a.m. Monday, with Congressman Jim Costa scheduled to address the group of local heroes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The flight is expected to return to Fresno on Wednesday around 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTRAL VALLEY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; This time tomorrow, 68 Valley veterans will be heading to Washington, D.C., to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[529,512,520,112,528,114,113,511,518,517,519,525,515,524,526,521,294,522,527,523,513,516,514],"class_list":{"0":"post-253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-529","9":"tag-central-valley","10":"tag-congressman-jim-costa","11":"tag-fresno","12":"tag-fresno-airport","13":"tag-fresno-headlines","14":"tag-fresno-news","15":"tag-honor-flight","16":"tag-kim-pennington","17":"tag-korean-war","18":"tag-kyle-pennington","19":"tag-local-heroes","20":"tag-memorials","21":"tag-military-service","22":"tag-patriotic-trip","23":"tag-sanger","24":"tag-timely","25":"tag-valley-veterans","26":"tag-veteran-memorials","27":"tag-veteran-tribute","28":"tag-veterans","29":"tag-vietnam-war","30":"tag-washington-d-c"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}