Jimmy Barrett

Jimmy Barrett

Jimmy Barrett comes to KTRH and KPRC via Detroit, Mich., and Richmond, Va. where he spent several decades doing mornings. Jimmy was also the...Full Bio

 

VIDEO: HONOR FLIGHTS

It was the applause and the calls of "Welcome home" that got to me.  Viet Nam War veterans  from Houston on their Honor Flight to Washington, DC Friday morning. By chance, I was aboard that flight and it was an atmosphere of goodwill that you seldom feel enroute to any destination. The pilot sporting a Stars and Stripes tie, by the way announced his father was one of the veterans in the group.  Fire trucks sprayed arcs of water as we landed.  And then the crowds of people applauding in the terminal as the Honor group deplaned... to the welcome they didn't get 40 years ago. 

They toured of our national war memorials and Arlington National Cemetery these veterans stood, many from their wheelchairs, at the Tomb of the American soldier.

Photos at KTRH.com


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