KMBC 9 is teaming up with the Heartland Honor Flight to send veterans to Washington, D.C. The trip is an experience of a lifetime for many veterans as they got to see memorials built in their honor and pay respect to fallen service members.

Unforgettable, remarkable and amazing. It's hard to put into words what the Honor Flight Bluegrass meant to my father and me.

During the time that most of the veterans on the Honor Flight served, women were not as common in the military. “When I joined, women were not all that common in the military. So it was a little difficult.

For many this event was decades in the making as seeing the war memorial dedicated to their service was cathartic, emotional, and powerful.

Honor Flight Bluegrass is a way to give back to the veterans and give them a proper "welcome home" after some of them weren't able to receive that when they returned home years ago. The journeys give them a chance to see the monuments dedicated to their service and have some fellowship with brothers in arms.

Mail call, just like when these veterans were in the service. “Most of mine are from my kids, my wife, and my great granddaughter. Well, she can’t write yet, but I got a good handprint from her,” says Army veteran Rodney Zentz. Family and friends telling these veterans just how much them and their service means to them.