55 of the veterans on the 34th Central Valley Honor Flight served during Vietnam.
The landmark flight is slated to take off on October 7 from Chicago with 100 female veterans to the nation's capital to visit the national war memorials built in their honor.
Veteran Maggie, who served as a nurse in Vietnam War, completed ten push-ups alongside the TSA employee, wearing the same uniform she wore during the war.
In 1974, Danny Cherry and Earle Glenn Wood met on the USS Oriskany as 18 year olds. They reunited this week for the first time since the war.
Brian Knight never knew what happened to his dad, who was shot down during the Vietnam War. Now he's had the honor of flying him home.
The first Central Valley Honor Flight featuring exclusively Vietnam veterans was an emotional journey to our nation's capital, and brought a long overdue "thank you" for the vets.