Honor Flight Syracuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Over the last dozen years or so, Honor-Flight Syracuse has taken nearly 1,600 military veterans to Washington, D.C. as a way to thank them for their service.
NewsChannel 9's Tim Fox was on the latest mission to capture the moments that the veterans say they will remember for the rest of their lives.
Honor Flight Syracuse Mission 22 was planned with military precision, moving 82 veterans from Central and Northern New York and the Mohawk Valley around some of the most sacred monuments in the Nation's capital.
Some twelve hours after they took off from Hancock Airport, they're back. Mission accomplished. But not without one more chance for Central New Yorkers by the thousands to say thank you for all you've done for our country.
'When I came home in '70, we had to sneak home. Nobody cared. Nobody wanted to know about you. I appreciate everything here today that everyone's done for me,' Ron Cihocki, an army veteran from West Leyden, said.
To watch the full journey captured by Tim Fox on Honor Flight Syracuse Mission 22, watch the video in the player above.
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