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  10. Just got home from honor flight. What an amazing day. Will let you know when it is online and in print.
  11. Back at Reagan National awaiting boarding. There is a swing band and dance group greeting the vets.
  12. Just saw changing of guard at Arlington. Amazing to do it in company of 100 SC WWII vets.
  13. Lots of disappointed tourists when black SUVs decked out with American flags pull up and out steps...a bunch of reporters from sc
  14. Heading to Iwo Jima memorial. Brief rainfall, but sunny again.
  15. Lincoln, Vietnam and Korean memorials. Snapped pic of 4 yo shaking a vets hand. Look for it in print Sunday.
  16. Moving seeing veterans at the memorial. Bugler from president's Marine Corps band played "Taps."
  17. At WWII memorial. Awaiting vets' buses.
  18. Veterans being created by cheering crowd in DC, and barbershop quartet to boot.
  19. Touchdown in DC.
  20. The oldest vet on board is 96.