Central and Southwest Virginia Honor Flight visits U.S. Army Museum
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (WFXR) – The Central and Southwest Virginia Honor Flight departed from the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford County on Friday, October 18 for a three-day trip that took 15 veterans to Washington, D.C. to see memorials, monuments, and museums dedicated to their service. On Friday, after departing from Bedford with 13 veterans […]
City of Branson chooses new location for Vietnam Veterans Wall
BRANSON, Mo. — The 2024 traveling Vietnam Veterans Branson Wall will be somewhere new for the foreseeable future, the City of Branson announced Monday. The City of Branson says the memorial will be displayed at Fire Station #4 at 250 Champagne Blvd for 2024 before settling into a permanent home at the new Branson Police […]
Honor Flight returns from powerful weekend
BEDFORD, Va. (WFXR) – The Central and Southwest Virginia Honor Flight returned to the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford on Sunday after an emotionally powerful three days touring war memorials in Washington D.C. and Arlington, Virginia. Each stop during the trip held its special value for each of the 15 veterans, but the period of […]
The Wall That Heals made its way to Hinesville
HINESVILLE, Ga. (WSAV) – Bryant Commons Park in Hinesville was home to a display of what has been in nearly 700 communities throughout the nation, the Wall That Heals. The touring wall is a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. and features more than 58,000 names of American soldiers killed during the […]