Doing your chores: Student raises money for Honor Flight veterans

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Doing your chores: Student raises money for Honor Flight veterans

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Friday marks the 81st anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, when Allied troops stormed ashore at Normandy. It's a moment in history that's captured on these tablets at the World War II Memorial in Jastro Park. All the names of our men and women who took part in the war effort are etched onto these tablets, many of whom took part in Honor Flight. I've got the story of a young man who's been raising money to send these veterans to D.C. since the age of nine.

“This house right here, Marines," said Souers. You might say he's a man on a mission. "The way I view it, if 1,000 people donate two dollars, that's 2,000 dollars," said Souers.

The soon-to-be 6th grader at Centennial El