{"id":282076,"date":"2026-04-23T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:18:08","slug":"34th-central-valley-honor-flight-returns-to-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/282076\/","title":{"rendered":"34th Central Valley Honor Flight returns to Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, April 23, 2026 1:16PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"34th Central Valley Honor Flight returns to Fresno\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Valley veterans received a red-white-and-blue homecoming at Fresno Yosemite International<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 34th Central Valley Honor Flight landed Wednesday night after three days in Washington, D.C., where the heroes toured the war memorials dedicated to their service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The cheering crowd gave the 69 veterans the homecoming they deserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Before they boarded the return flight, the veterans visited Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Action News Anchor Warren Armstrong and Action News photographer Richard Harmelink also returned on the flight after bringing us incredible reports of the trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Groups of school children formed a tunnel, cheering, applauding and thanking the veterans for their service.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 23, 2026 1:16PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Valley veterans received a red-white-and-blue homecoming at Fresno Yosemite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[121243,512,112,114,113,511,294,513,558],"class_list":{"0":"post-282076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-121243","9":"tag-central-valley","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-honor-flight","14":"tag-timely","15":"tag-veterans","16":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282076","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=282076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}