Twenty-three Alaska veterans traveled to D.C. this week on the first Last Frontier Honor Flight since the start of the pandemic. There's a homecoming for them at the Anchorage airport Saturday afternoon:
Ninety-year-old Korean War and Vietnam War veteran Bobby Tucker, Sr., right, and his son Vietnam War veteran Bobby Tucker, Jr., 69, prepare to depart Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Tuesday, April 26, 2020.
Among them were 90-year-old Korean War and Vietnam War veteran Bobby Tucker Sr. and his son, Vietnam War veteran Bobby Tucker Jr., 69. As the two U.S. Air Force veterans waited to board a flight, Tucker Sr. said of his son, “I’m glad to get to go with him. It will probably be one of the last things we do together and enjoy.”
“This is the first Honor Flight since 2013 there isn’t a World War II veteran,” said president Randy Kimpton. “It’s an amazing program because it allows the veterans to heal. They went and served, which allows us to enjoy the freedoms we have today. Almost none of them received a thank you. There was nothing. Many of them just went back to work. We will see as many memorials as possible: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Roosevelt Memorial.
There will be a homecoming at the airport at 4 p.m. Saturday. Kimpton said, “Anybody and everybody that wants to come out. There will be a band and speakers and a chance to personally say thank you to one of these veterans.”
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