{"id":452635,"date":"2026-09-03T22:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452635\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T22:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T22:38:11","slug":"central-valley-honor-flight-veterans-receive-a-heros-welcome-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452635\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Valley Honor Flight veterans receive a hero&#8217;s welcome in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Veterans aboard the 35th Central Valley Honor Flight received a warm welcome Wednesday night as they returned to Fresno Yosemite International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The 68 veterans are now home after visiting our Nation&#8217;s Capitol and the many war memorials built in their honor.<\/p>\n<p><p>Central Valley Honor Flight veterans receive a hero&#8217;s welcome in Fresno (Photo: FOX26 Photojournalist Ronnie Gerber)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/central-valley-honor-flight-marks-35th-trip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Central Valley Honor Flight Photo Gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the final day of the trip, these heroes visited Arlington National Cemetery, observing the Changing of the Guard Ceremony and Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.<\/p>\n<p>They also got to pay tribute to their fallen comrades at the Korean War Memorial and the Vietnam Wall before getting on the flight home.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/central-valley-veterans-embark-on-35th-honor-flight-to-washington-dc-world-war-ii-desert-storm-fresno-yosemite-airport-military-branches-service-hero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> trip began on Monday <\/a>when the veterans arrived at the airport before the sun came up.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Veterans aboard the 35th Central Valley Honor Flight received a warm welcome Wednesday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-452635","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\/452635","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=452635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}