Three Harrison County veterans came home from Honor Flight Kentucky

Honor Flight Kentucky took Bob Owen, Mike Wilson, and Dan Haley from Harrison County to Washington on October 3, The Cynthiana Democrat reported. Each man traveled with a guardian. They reached Blue Grass Airport well before sunrise, had breakfast, and boarded an American Airlines flight after walking under a canopy of flags.

The day was gray and wet. The veterans put on rain jackets, opened umbrellas, and kept going. A wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was a high point. On the way back, emergency vehicles sprayed an arch of water over the plane, and friends and family lined a hallway at Blue Grass Airport with flags and signs. The paper said the veterans on this flight were mostly from the Vietnam era, and that this was the kind of welcome many of them had not received the first time they came home.

The nonprofit said this was its last flight until spring. A veteran flies at no charge. Older applicants and veterans who are terminally ill go first, and the waiting list is long. Three Harrison County seats on this flight do not clear that list.