{"id":448939,"date":"2026-08-31T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448939\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:50:10","slug":"35th-central-valley-honor-flight-taking-off-with-nearly-70-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448939\/","title":{"rendered":"35th Central Valley Honor Flight taking off with nearly 70 veterans"},"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\/2026\/08\/1788191410_409_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, August 31, 2026 1:15PM<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 70 Valley veterans will gather at Fresno Yosemite International Airport Monday morning to prepare for their &#8220;trip of a lifetime!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Nearly 70 Valley veterans will gather at Fresno Yosemite International Airport Monday morning to prepare for their &#8220;trip of a lifetime!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 35th Central Valley Honor Flight will take off to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The veterans&#8217; years of service cover every year from 1954 through 1998, with two serving during the Korean War Era &amp; 66 in uniform during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They&#8217;ll gather at the airport for a special sendoff to the Nation&#8217;s Capitol, where they will visit memorials and monuments built in their honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The flight will return this Wednesday, when a special welcome home ceremony will be held.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The public is invited to attend, with the flight scheduled to return sometime after 6 pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">You&#8217;re asked to arrive about an hour earlier to welcome our heroes home.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, August 31, 2026 1:15PM Nearly 70 Valley veterans will gather at Fresno Yosemite International Airport Monday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[177700,512,112,114,113,511,294,513,10978],"class_list":["post-448939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-177700","tag-central-valley","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-honor-flight","tag-timely","tag-veterans","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448939","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=448939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}