Ozark Veterans Set to Visit D.C. on First Honor Flight of 2025

Ozark Veterans set to visit D.C. on first Honor Flight of 2025

Two days after Memorial Day, some deserving veterans will make the trip of a lifetime to the nation’s capital as part of the first Honor Flight of the year, scheduled for take off Wednesday this week. A full group of 81 veterans and 81 guardians will depart Springfield National Airport at 4:30 Wednesday morning and return the same evening. Five of the veterans served in Korea, while 76 served in Vietnam. Fifteen live in Arkansas, with the remain…

Mitchell veterans share honor flight experience as a couple

MITCHELL — Less than a week ago, on Tuesday, May 20, a journey came full circle for Marty and Cindy Christensen of Mitchell. They had just returned from Midwest Honor Flight’s Seed for Success Foundation Mission 25 — a one-day tour to the nation’s capital that honors America’s war veterans with “One Final Tour with Honor.” The Christensens are no strangers to service. Both are veterans with more than five decades of combined military experience.…

Honor Flight to Washington D.C. commemorates military service, sacrifice by Greenfield and Montague veterans

When Vietnam War veterans William Phelps and Denny Dwyer, both of Greenfield, and Montague’s 102-year-old World War II veteran Lee Evers got off buses at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut in the early hours of May 3, they were greeted by a “long-overdue celebration” of their service to America.

Two Washington County veterans go on Honor Flight

Submitted PhotoVETERANS TRIP — Maurice Marlow, LEFT, was accompanied on the trip by Michelle Doebber. Marlow, Bland had never been to memorials   By TODD MARVER tmarver@washingtonconews.com   WASHINGTON COUNTY — Veterans Roberta “Bert” Bland of Irvington and Maurice Marlow of Nashville attended Mission 14 of the Veterans Honor Flight of Southern Illinois out of Marion on May 6.  Bland said one of the biggest shocks she got on this trip was when …