Veterans from Oklahoma and Texas spent the day in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.

It’s part of day two of the Brookshire Grocery Company Heroes Flight, which gives them a chance to see memorials and historic sites in D.C.

The group visited 11 memorials, including Arlington National Cemetery, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, and the Lincoln Memorial. They reflected on their time in the service and honored friends who never made it home.

The Heroes Flight gives many of them their first opportunity to see these sites in person.

Brookshire, the parent company of Reasor's, invited News On 6 to tag along.

“I’ll never forget this, as long as I live. 95 and I only have much longer,” Billy Phillips, a Korean War veteran, said.

The group wraps up their trip on Wednesday be

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