Airport workers at Kansas City International Airport greeted veterans arriving from Lyndon with American flags before their April 30 Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.

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U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran talks with Martin Jones of Lawrence, a World War II veteran, at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. Moran met the veterans there during the April 30 Honor Flight.

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A veteran snaps a photo during the April 30 Honor Flight trip to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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U.S. Rep. Nancy Boyda talks with veterans including Martin Jones of Lawrence, right, during the April 30 Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.

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Former Sen. Bob Dole talks with Kansas World War II veterans during an April 30 Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.

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Virginia Visser and Martin Jones, both of Lawrence, were among those who participated in a wreath-laying ceremony April 30 during an Honor Flight trip to Washington, D.C.

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Martin Jones and Virginia Visser, both of Lawrence, participated in a ceremony honoring Kansas veterans April 30 at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Veterans listen - and one salutes - during the singing of the national anthem during a ceremony at the World War II Memorial April 30 in Washington, D.C.

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Veterans listen as the national anthem is sung during a ceremony at the World War II Memorial April 30 in Washington, D.C.

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Virginia Visser of Lawrence, left, helps lay a wreath April 30 at the Kansas pillar of the national World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Martin Jones of Lawrence, who served more than four months as a prisoner of war in Germany, takes a photo of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., during an April 30 Honor Flight trip to the capital.

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Virginia Visser of Lawrence, center, a nurse during World War II, talks with friends Erik Nelson, former director of Kansas University's Dole Institute of Politics, and Cara Bolz, a senior at Lyndon High School, during an April 30 flight to the national World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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A single rose sits along the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The memorial was one of several stops for Kansas veterans during an April 30 Honor Flight to the nation's capital.

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U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas talks with Kansas veterans at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington, D.C., during an April 30 Honor Flight.

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Angie Payne, an Honor Flight organizer from Lyndon, talks with a veteran while preparing to leave April 30 from Kansas City International Airport. The flight took the veterans to Washington, D.C.

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An airport employee at Kansas City International Airport holds flags to honor 35 veterans onboard a flight destined for Washington, D.C., on April 30.

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A World War II veteran makes his way down the aisle during the April 30 Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.

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World War II veterans from Kansas listen in on a ceremony April 30 at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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A World War II veteran from Kansas stands from his wheelchair to greet Sen. Pat Roberts at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Washington, D.C., on April 30 as part of the Honor Flight program.

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A World War II veteran shows off photos of his military years onboard an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., April 30.

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A World War II veteran waves to an applauding crowd after he got off an airplane in Baltimore April 30 as part of the Honor Flight program.

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