The San Diego International Airport was packed at Terminal Two on Sunday as dozens of people welcomed home 90 veterans from their three-day trip to Washington, D.C. The trip was organized through the nonprofit Honor Flight San Diego.

"This is why we're able to do what we do and that we are in a free country and that they're the ones who sacrificed for us," said Sharon Faurot, the wife of a Vietnam veteran who served in the U.S. Navy.

Faurot was joined by her daughter in the crowd awaiting her husband's return from his Honor Flight.

"He was in helicopters. He also did Apollo pickups. He was on the Apollo pickup crew for 11, 12 and 13 -- the famous 13," said Faurot.

Harold Faurot, Sharon's husband, was on the Honor Flight with his best friend and some family who served as his guardian du

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