{"id":443505,"date":"2026-08-26T00:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443505\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:14:12","slug":"final-preps-for-upcoming-central-valley-honor-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443505\/","title":{"rendered":"Final preps for upcoming Central Valley Honor Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vanessa Vasconcelos Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/13299281_052523-kfsn-vanessa-vasconcelos-Bio-Image.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, August 25, 2026 10:34PM<\/p>\n<p>Next week, 69 of our hometown Heroes will be flying to Washington, D.C., to see the memorials built in honor of their service and sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Next week, 69 of our hometown Heroes will be flying to Washington, D.C., to see the memorials built in honor of their service and sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Central Valley Honor Flight takes off Monday and will feature veterans from 26 different hometowns here in Central California, including several Purple Heart recipients and two Silver Star honorees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Central Valley Honor Flight&#8217;s Paul Loeffler and US Air Force veteran Bonnie Waters joined us to discuss the experience and a special welcome home ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, August 25, 2026 10:34PM Next week, 69 of our hometown Heroes will be flying to Washington, D.C.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[175736,512,25185,112,114,113,511,167565,294,513],"class_list":["post-443505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-175736","tag-central-valley","tag-dc","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-honor-flight","tag-no-badge","tag-timely","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443505","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=443505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}