A pair of sisters from southwestern Ohio are giving again to America’s veterans in an enormous manner by amassing hundreds of {dollars} for Honor Flights.
12-year-old Tessa Ziegler and eight-year-old Raya Ziegler raised greater than $30,000 to assist the Honor Flight Community, which flies veterans to Washington, D.C., the place they go to memorials that honor their sacrifice.
“I like seeing the veterans and their smiles after they get dwelling from the Honor Flight,” Tessa mentioned on “America’s Newsroom” Thursday.
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The older sister mentioned the duo have been impressed to affix the trigger after using alongside for an Honor Flight.
“My mother impressed me as a result of her pal invited us to an Honor Flight and we simply actually favored it, and we simply needed to maintain going again there.”
Raya instructed co-anchor Invoice Hemmer she was impressed to assist at such a younger age “as a result of I like our veterans, as a result of they’re so good.”
Rachel Ziegler, mother of the 2 fundraising sisters, mentioned it’s an “honor” to be serving to assist America’s veterans via the Honor Flights Community.
“We simply love our veterans right here. And we all know many of the veterans proper now on the Honor Flights are Vietnam veterans, Korean. We all know that that they had no homecoming in any respect. Plenty of them have been spit on. Folks tried to struggle them,” she mentioned.
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“So to be there at these Honor Flight homecomings and have the ability to welcome them dwelling and provides them the homecoming that they honestly deserved – shake their palms, thank them for his or her service – it simply will get actually emotional. They’re comfortable. They’re crying. It is simply such an excellent program.”
To affix the Zieglers in giving again to America’s heroes, go to www.honorflighttristate.org
