Bringing veterans to America’s war monuments

Over the past 20 years, a charity has flown hundreds of thousands of military veterans to Washington DC to visit the war memorials built in honour of their service and sacrifice. Sophie Williams went to meet veterans from WW2, and the Korean and Vietnam wars who'd taken these 'honor flights'.

Listen to my piece for the BBC World Service here.

And my Radio 4 ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ piece here.

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