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WASHINGTON, D.C — Most of Utah's eight thousand surviving World War II veterans have not seen their memorial in Washington, D.C.
Friday, 47 of those, and their guardians, had the opportunity of a lifetime to do just that by joining a Utah Honor Flight presented by KSL.
Among them is 17-year-old Branson Horton — an Alta High School senior accompanying his great-grandfather, Jim Kirschbaum. Horton is the youngest guardian ever to make the trip to Washington, but his great-grandfather says he was even younger when he was among those fighting on the front lines of Okinawa.
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This is the last Utah Honor Flight of the fall, but the program picks up again in the spring thanks to the support of generous daughters throughout the community.
