DES MOINES, Iowa – A group of Iowa Veterans is preparing for a new mission.
They will leave Thursday morning for a much-deserved all-expenses-paid trip to Washington D.C. The Wake Foundation for Wounded Veterans is sponsoring an Honor Flight, which will give the Veterans three days to tour the more than thirty war monuments and memorials created in their honor.
“Whenever we go to some place like the White House or Pentagon, they have the opportunity to see some place they’ve never seen,” said the 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation’s President and CEO Robert Wake. “But when you see them go to their memorial, that’s when you see the reactions.”…