{"id":449369,"date":"2026-09-01T00:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449369\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:25:15","slug":"35th-central-valley-honor-flight-takes-off-with-nearly-70-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449369\/","title":{"rendered":"35th Central Valley Honor Flight Takes Off with Nearly 70 Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Nearly 70 Valley veterans gathered at Fresno Yosemite International Airport Monday morning to prepare for their \u201ctrip of a lifetime!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 35th Central Valley Honor Flight was taking off to Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The veterans\u2019 years of service cover every year from 1954 through 1998, with two serving during the Korean War Era\u00a0&amp; 66 in uniform during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>KMJ Afternoon Drive Host Philip Teresi joined the group on the trip as they fly to the Nation\u2019s 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\u2019re asked to arrive about an hour earlier to welcome our heroes home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0Nearly 70 Valley veterans gathered at Fresno Yosemite International Airport Monday morning to prepare for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-449369","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\/449369","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=449369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}