WLWT: Veterans on Honor Flight return to 'Welcome Home Rally' at CVG Airport
10/17/2023
WLWT / Chris Jacobs / October 17, 2023
HEBRON, Ky. — The fourth and final Honor Flight of the year took off from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on Tuesday morning, and a large crowd welcomed the veterans home on Tuesday night.
The "Welcome Home Rally" was an emotional affair on Tuesday night, with a few hundred people packed inside the CVG lobby.
Eighty-one veterans returned back to Cincinnati around 9 p.m. Tuesday after departing to Washington, D.C., in the morning.
The trip included 40 retired law enforcement officers who, after their military service, finished their careers in law enforcement.
The rest of the flight was filled with 44 of the oldest veterans on the waiting list for the trip. Eighty percent of the flight honored Vietnam veterans.