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117th Airmen help welcome heroes home
117th Air Refueling Wing
Oct. 8, 2025 | 1:35
Airmen with the 117th Air Refueling Wing, Alabama Air National Guard, welcome home World War II and Vietnam era veterans at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, Oct. 8, 2025. Nearly 100 attendees formed a corridor as the veterans, and their escorts left the aircraft that had carried them home from Washington D.C. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Paul Mann)
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