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Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough (right) was on hand at Midway Airport September 16 to welcome her husband Henderson Yarbrough (center) who was one of 114 military veterans returning from a special day of honor in Washington, D.C. for Chicago-area military veterans coordinated by Honor Flight Chicago.
Honor Flight Chicago provides senior war veterans with a special, all-expense-paid-trip to visit the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War memorials. Henderson Yarbrough, a Vietnam Veteran who served as an E-5 Specialist in the U.S. Army, was escorted off the flight by a member of the U.S. Navy. The September 16 flight included two World War II veterans, 12 Korean War veterans and 11 Vietnam veterans.
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