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Today’s Star Spangled Salute honors the Honor Flight Network and all the Veterans they have helped since 2005.  On Tuesday, Veterans, dignitaries and volunteers gathered at the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., to mark the Honor Flight Network bringing its 250,000th veteran to the nation’s capital. The organization has been bringing veterans to Washington since 2005 by welcoming them to share in a day of honor at America’s memorials. During the ceremony, speakers such as former Sen. Elizabeth Dole, and Sens. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., took the stage to commemorate the milestone. Elizabeth Dole said this of her late husband, “My husband for 14 years came down here to the World War II memorial every Saturday to meet with the veterans coming in from honor flights. And often he would get on the bus and say hello to them before they even got off. We think this is one of the finest programs we ever had, and it continues to make such a huge difference to so many people.”  Thank you Honor Flight for the continued great work you do and to all the Veterans that benefit from the program, THANK YOU for your service.