The Honor Flight is a national network of independent hubs that work together to honor area veterans with an all-expenses paid trip to Washington DC that they may not be able to afford otherwise.
I traveled to our nation’s capitol with the Honor Flight of Southern Colorado as our local veterans connected with other veterans while visiting the hallowed ground.
Friday veterans had the opportunity to walk along the National Mall in DC, it was a very busy and emotional day for the 27 veterans on the trip beginning at the World War II memorial before making their way to the Vietnam Wall.
Many of the veterans on this trip paid their respects for some it was decades in the making.
For Larry Mooring, the 58,318 lives on the wall were the many men and women he served with during his time in Vietnam. One of them is a member of his unit Bobby Braswell who was killed just shy of 22 years old.
“We refitted the track got Bobby Braswell back, and then Braswell was killed,” recollected Mooring at the Vietnam Wall.