TYLER, Texas — For the first time since COVID-19 pandemic-related pause, the Brookshire Grocery Co. will be taking more than two dozen veterans to Washington D.C. this Monday for its Heroes Flight.
The veterans will participate in a send-off ceremony on Monday at 7:30 a.m. at the Tyler Pounds Regional Airport. The East Texas community is invited to attend the event held just before the veterans take flight.
This will be the 20th Brookshire’s and Super 1 Foods Heroes Flight. The program has been relaunched after it was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Along with veterans from World War II and the Korean War, veterans who were in Vietnam War, Gulf War, War in Afghanistan and War in Iraq. The trip is all expenses paid to honor the veterans for their service and sacrifices.
Since the first flight, more than 500 veterans have traveled with BGC to Washington D.C.
Veterans on the trip visit the World War II Memorial and tour the U.S. Capitol with Congressman Nathaniel Moran. Other stops on the schedule include Arlington National Cemetery, the Air and Space Museum and memorials honoring the U.S. Marines, Navy, Air Force, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., and Vietnam and Korean War veterans.
BGC employees, including several who have also served in the military, will join the veterans on the trip to assist them.
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