A special honor flight came to Arlington National Cemetery on Sept. 25, 2024. Typically, military veterans from a specific state or city comprise honor flights—gatherings to tour memorials in Washington, D.C., as well as Arlington National Cemetery. This honor flight, however, involved not only veterans from Kansas City, but also Vietnam War medevac crew members from all over the United States. On Sept. 17, 2024, Congress passed legislation to award these medevac crew members the Congressional Gold Medal. Commonly known by their call sign, “Dustoff,” they flew unarmed helicopters, adorned with a red cross, onto active battlefields to retrieve the wounded.