Honor Flights: World War II Vets Keep Streaming Through D.C.

Bridget Johnson

November 04, 2013 8:00 AM

The shutdown is long over, the monuments have reopened in Washington, and the World War II vets who famously broke down the barriers to visit their monument are still streaming in on Honor Flights. Tessie Abraham, legislative counsel to Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), led veterans and volunteers from southeast Pennsylvania on a tour of the sites Saturday. Some wonderful images shared by Toomey’s office:

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.