(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — After a more than yearlong hiatus, Honor Flight Chicago has announced plans to resume trips to Washington D.C. later this summer.
The organization sends U.S. veterans, free of charge, to the nation’s capital to visit memorials to the armed services. The participants also get a hero’s welcome when they return to Chicago.
Honor Flight Chicago said a four-flight season is planned, beginning in August. Priority will be given to veterans who have been vaccinated for COVID-19, organizers said. Volunteers who help staff the trips will be required to be vaccinated.
“We are so deeply excited to get back to doing what we do best: thanking our veterans for their service and sacrifice,” the organization said in a news release.
The 2021 journeys will include a veterans flight with women who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
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