Honor flight

C1 3 honor flight kentucky is doing things a bit different next year... they're working on putting together their first all-female flight for women veterans.

Abc 36's erica bivens has more on the plans... and the reason for the change-up.

L3 erica: white l3: abc 36 news white operation heroes honor flight kentucky l3 erica: white erica bivens: honor flight kentucky officials say they wanted to appreciate the service and sacrifice of our female veterans... so they created a special flight just for them.

Honor flight kentucky is a non profit that flies our nation's veterans to washington d-c every year to visit the memorials dedicated to their service and sacrifice.

And next summer they hope to have a full flight for their operation heroes.

Ashley bruggeman, board of directors, honor flight kentucky: so half of that flight will be female veterans from the vietnam and korean wars and wwii and the other half will be female veterans that are younger than the vietnam war and have served since then.

So it will allow for this great commraderie between those generations which will just be fanatastic.

And, i think it's gonna be a great opportunity for younger girls to see what true heroism looks like."

Erica: there are a few qualifications you have to meet in order to apply.

We've posted that information for you on our website wtvq dot com.

In studio, erica bivens, abc 36 news.

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