(KMZA)--Twenty-one area veterans will depart Tuesday for an Honor Flight to Washington D.C.

Participants include one Korean veteran and 20 Vietnam veterans.  They will be accompanied by three guardians and three flight leaders.

Veterans will board vans at the Seneca American Legion at 9:30 Tuesday morning. The vans, escorted by Legion Riders on motorcycles, will travel  down Main Street and past schools before heading out of town on U.S. 36 Highway. Seneca residents are urged to have their flags flying and pay patriotic respect when the vans carrying the veterans pass by.

The local group will meet up with other northeast Kansas veterans to drive to Wichita, where they will leave early Wednesday morning on Kansas Honor Flight #77 for a three-day journey to the nation’s Capitol.

The Kansas Honor Flight is an all-volunteer organization that works to honor Kansas veterans of World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War by providing them an all-expense paid journey to visit their memorials in Washington D.C.