7OnScene: Heroes Flight departs for Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KLTV) - The Brookshire Grocery Company’s 18th World War II Heroes Flight is on its way to Washington D.C. They departed Tyler Pounds Regional Airport on Thursday morning.

The grocery company says 24 veterans are flying to the nation’s capital where they will visit the WWII memorial and tour the U.S. Capitol with Congressman Louie Gohmert, R-Texas.