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Honor Flight is a heartwarming documentary about four living World War II veterans and a Midwest community coming together to give them the trip of a lifetime. Volunteers race against the clock to fly thousands of WWII veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorial constructed for them in 2004, nearly 60 years after their epic struggle.
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"Each monument represents the utmost in engineering, design and vision. They all stand as mighty symbols of American ingenuity, courage and sacrifice. Find out how these famous structures came to be, who conceived of them, whose sweat built them, and who dismissed them as fantasy. Find out why the Washington Monument took 100 years from conception to execution, why skeptics thought the Brooklyn Bridge wouldn't survive the first gale, and why it took...
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This video chronicles the Honor Flight trip of Chicago area military veterans to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., with side trips to the Korean War Memorial and to the Enola Gay on display at the Washington Dulles International Airport. Honor Flight Chicago President Mary Pettinato explains the mission of the organization.