{"id":349,"date":"2025-10-13T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T03:27:07","slug":"honor-flight-to-depart-fresno-with-veterans-from-across-the-valley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor flight to depart Fresno with veterans from across the Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This time tomorrow, 68 Valley veterans will be heading to Washington, D.C., to visit memorials built in their honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 33rd Central Valley Honor Flight will depart from Fresno early Monday morning, including Kim Pennington of Sanger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 78-year-old Vietnam War veteran will participate in the three-day trip of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Monday&#8217;s flight will also include veterans representing 17 hometowns across 8 counties from the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The oldest veterans include two 96-year-old Korean War veterans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The flight is expected to return to Fresno on Wednesday around 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This time tomorrow, 68 Valley veterans will be heading to Washington, D.C., to visit memorials built in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[512,112,114,113,511,518,673],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-central-valley","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-honor-flight","tag-kim-pennington","tag-vietnam-war-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}