Early Tuesday morning, 71 military veterans from Utah and across the Intermountain West boarded a flight to Washington, DC. as part of the Utah Honor Flight.
The trip It’s an opportunity for those who have served our nation to visit the memorials in that are meant for them, and for those veterans to receive the respect they often did not get when they came home.
Support from the Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation and an army of volunteers make it all happen.When I came home from Vietnam no one believed me and some of them spit on me and called me a _____," said Army vet Jack Johnson."It destroyed us and we had to burn our uniforms. We couldn’t wear them.
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