ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) was filled with welcome signs and the sound of bagpipes on Saturday afternoon. Twenty-four Alaska veterans arrived home from a trip of a lifetime, an honor flight to Washington D.C.
“When we heard the bagpipes, I went, ‘Wow,’ I can’t believe this,” Howard Appel, a US Army Veteran, said. “You couldn’t ask for better.”
During the trip, put on by the Last Frontier Honor Flight, veterans visited various memorials and monuments throughout the D.C. area. According to Last Frontier Honor Flight, the goal is to fly as many veterans as it can to D.C. at no cost. Typically, the Last Frontier Honor Flight said, trips consist of 23 veterans. This month, though, the program was able to send 24 veterans to the East Coast…