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Eight Cherokee veterans — who served during the Vietnam War —  visited the World War I Memorial, the World War II Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and the Korean War Memorial on Tuesday. The Cherokee veterans are in the nation’s capital city as part of the 10th Cherokee Warrior Flight. The Cherokee Nation funds the flight for Cherokee veterans to see the national war memorials erected in their honor in Washington, D.C.

A group of Cherokee Nation citizens who all served in the armed forces during the Vietnam War are taking part in the tribe’s latest and 10th Warrior Flight to the

Air Force veteran James LeRoy Locut, 83, of Sand Springs, departed Monday for Washington, D.C., with eight other veterans who served during the Vietnam War.

A U.S. Navy veteran from Claremore was among a group of Vietnam veterans and one World War II veteran who left Monday as part of Cherokee Nation’s 10th Cherokee Warrior