Here are some images from the Honor Flight Honor Dinner at the Cass County Community Ceneter, and the motorcade from Atlantic to Des Moines Monday evening. 150 veterans from Cass and area Counties will arrive in Des Moines after passing through Wiota and Anita on their way to I-80 near Adair. Three buses full of veterans and their escorts/medical staff were preceded on their journey by throngs of motorcycles, and followed by emergency vehicles from Atlantic, Marne, Griswold and elsewhere, along with two Deuce and a half trucks and other vehicles.

The veterans will depart Des Moines at sunrise Tuesday enroute to Washington, D-C. They will return at around midnight Tuesday. The trip was made possible thanks to Atlantic natives Roger Underwood and Jeff Becker, two successful businessmen from Ames. (Jim Field and Ric Hanson photo’s)