WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, six Korean War veterans and 84 Vietnam War veterans were among the 163 people on the 30th Honor Flight to Washington, D.
C., sponsored by Sullivan-Hartogh-Davis Cedar Valley Honor Flight. A total of 163 Northeast Iowans, including 63 guardians and 10 Honor Flight staff members, landed at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.
There they boarded three buses for a tour of our nation’s capital that included stops at many of the monuments and memorials that make that city great. The tour also passed by the construction in progress for the Desert Shield and Storm Memorial, scheduled to be completed next summer The group visited on a beautiful day. “It was 75° with no humidity.
There was a slight breeze, and we were all in love with the D.C. weather,” Linda Bergmann, flight coordinator with Cedar Valley Honor Flight, said in an email to The Courier.
A group of Cedar Valley veterans enjoys the view from a vantage point that features the Battle of Midway at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
The first stop was the World War II Memorial, where veterans were greeted by retired U.S. Army Brig.
Gen. David Cole, a Waterloo native, and his wife, Connie. Cole has welcomed veterans from all 30 Cedar Valley Honor Flights since the trips began in 2011.
A member of Tuesday's Cedar Valley Honor Flight studies a photo featuring an image of Iowa Army Sgt. Jennifer Peters taken in 2017 at the Women In Military Service For Americ.