{"id":448877,"date":"2026-08-31T14:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448877\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:38:09","slug":"central-valley-veterans-embark-on-35th-honor-flight-to-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448877\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Valley veterans embark on 35th Honor Flight to Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans and their guardians from the Central Valley are gathered for the 35th Central Valley Honor Flight.<\/p>\n<p><p>FOX26 Alexis Govea spoke with veteran Rudy Bustamante who told a very interesting story from his time in service, and how another man saved his life. (FOX26)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>FOX26 Reporter Alexis Govea joins them LIVE at the Fresno Yosemite Airport, where many are there to see the heroes off on their journey.<\/p>\n<p>69 veterans from across the Central Valley are participating in the event that serves as a tribute to their service and sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/sanger-girl-donates-pokemon-cards-to-help-children-living-in-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sanger girl donates Pok\u00e9mon cards to help children living in hospitals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group includes veterans representing multiple branches of the military and service eras ranging from World War II to Desert Storm.<\/p>\n<p>The group returns to Fresno on Wednesday night, and the community is invited to attend to give them a hero&#8217;s welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veterans and their guardians from the Central Valley are gathered for the 35th Central Valley Honor Flight. FOX26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-448877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448877","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=448877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}