1 More Day Until Honor Flight 2

Clara Webb, Barbara Chachitz and Katherine Gill (Photos/stories found at Mississippi Press)

PASCAGOULA -- Of the 87 veterans expected to make the second trip for Mississipi Gulf Coast Honor Flight, three are women.

Clara Webb, Barbara Chachitz and Katherine Gill are among the former military personnel who will make the trip to Washington, D.C., to visit the World War II Memorial, other war sites and civilian monuments.

The Sept. 21 journey, the second since the initial Honor Flight on May 11, includes the veterans, their guardians, Honor Flight staff, medical team and local media, who will depart from and return to Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport off U.S. 49.

ITINERARY:

4:30 a.m. -- Assemble at Joppa Shrine Center in Woolmarket.

5:30 a.m. -- Buses leave for Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport.

6:30 a.m. -- U.S. Air charter departs Gulfport.

8:38 a.m. -- Land at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.

9:30 a.m. -- Buses depart for WWI Memorial

10 a.m. -- Bagpipe procession and wreath-laying at WWIII Memorial

10:30 a.m. to noon -- Box lunches at WWII Memorial; continue visit of WWII Memorial

Noon -- Depart WWII Memorial on driving tour of other sites.

12:15 p.m. -- Arrive at Lincoln, Korean and Vietnam War memorials.

1:45 -- Depart Lincoln Memorial.

2 p.m. -- Arrive at Iwo Jima Memorial.

2:25 p.m. -- Depart Iwo Jima Memorial.

2:45 p.m. -- Arrive at Arlington National Cemetery.

3 p.m. -- Observe Changing of the Guard.

3:15 p.m. -- Observe wreath-laying.

4 p.m. -- Depart for Reagan airport

5:30 p.m. -- Depart from Washington, D.C.

7:50 p.m. -- Arrive at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport.