KWQC
By Madeline Gillespie

Over 80 veterans and their volunteer guardians boarded a flight to Washington D.C. Tuesday morning for the 64th Honor Flight of the Quad Cities.

While in D.C., the veterans will tour the monuments built in their honor, and attend the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier before returning to the Quad Cities Tuesday night.

For many, it’s a once in a lifetime experience.

“It’s just an honor to be recognized in what we did in the service to support our men and women that were overseas,” said Vietnam veteran, Barbara Withey.

The veterans are expected to land back at the Quad Cities International Airport around 10 p.m., and the public is invited to come to the airport to give the veterans a warm reception and welcome home.

Any veteran who served a year of honorable, non-training, active duty before 1976 is encouraged to fill out an application at honorflightqc.org/.