 Freedom Flates 208, 209, to our flight brief today is 24 March 22. When the POWs returned from Southeast Asia, when they got repatriated back in 1973, they were brought back to my squadron back then, and our squadron was given the responsibility of giving them a return to flying status. So they would get airborne again to see if they were physically and mentally suitable to be able to return to flying. My squadron was given that honor and that's what started the tradition we have today. The flight was meaningful because I just loved my career. After I came back from Vietnam, I went to pilot training and I was flying for about 19 out of 21 years in the Air Force. Today we hosted the Freedom Flyer Memorial, the Reflang Ceremony. This was a chance for us to bring former POWs back, have a time to remember them, remember their service, their sacrifice, but also a chance to remember their fellow comrades, other American heroes who didn't return who were still either missing in action or who were killed in action over there and then repatriated back to the United States. We are able to have a ceremony today to remember them, to thank them for their service and their sacrifice, but also again remember the comrades who didn't come home. I've got a number of my friends that are on the Vietnam wall or died in other places and I feel moved to be around a bunch of people that are remembering them. It's been such an incredible opportunity, not just for the two Freedom Flyers that we had, the two POWs, number 208 and 209 that we got to get airborne and fly yesterday in our T-38, but also for their community, their other members of their, that were POWs with them or family and friends of former POWs. This is a chance for us to get together and thank them as not just the two, but also the entire community.