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First all-women Honor Flight bound for Washington, D.C.
SANFORD, Fla. – An ‘Honor Flight’ is ready to honor ladies veterans with its upcoming flight from the Sanford Worldwide Airport Tuesday morning.
The Villages Honor Flight is a nonprofit group created in 2012 — certainly one of 130 hubs within the Honor Flight Community — to honor U.S. veterans by flying them without spending a dime to Washington, D.C. to see the memorials there.
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This yr, the group is planning a first-of-its-kind flight.
“That is the primary all-women flight from Florida and took place following a request from the Tri-County Girls Veterans nearly two years in the past,” mentioned Liza Walters, vp of operations for the flight.
In keeping with Tri-County Girls Veterans, the group was capable of elevate greater than $100,000 to make the journey attainable.
The in a single day flight consists of visits to the Nationwide Museum of the US Navy, the US Air Drive Memorial, the World Struggle II Memorial, Arlington Nationwide Cemetery and the Girls in Army Service for America Memorial, the group mentioned.
Walters mentioned she is glad to see the rising variety of ladies veterans and hopes extra will apply sooner or later.
“It’s about time,” she mentioned. “There are such a lot of of them, and so they’ve by no means actually had the popularity earlier than. That is all about recognizing the massive roles that girls veterans have performed within the army and within the nation. It will likely be actual enjoyable and thrilling.”
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Tri-County Girls Veterans mentioned there can be 109 veterans arriving at Sanford Worldwide Airport early Tuesday morning, the place they are going to be greeted by a colour guard and supplied breakfast earlier than formally boarding the flight.
The oldest girl on the flight can be 97-year-old Ruth Jones, a World Struggle II Military vet.
By way of 2022, The Villages Honor Flight could have flown greater than 1500 veterans to Washington, D.C.
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Jack Schlossberg look-alike contest in DC
D.C. is the latest city to jump on the trend of celebrity look-alike contests, with a Jack Schlossberg look-alike contest being held Sunday at Malcolm X park in Northwest D.C.
WASHINGTON – Hundreds gathered in Northwest D.C. Sunday to crown one person the doppelganger of Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s only grandson.
Schlossberg, a political correspondent for Vogue, spoke at the Democratic National Convention earlier this year.
Sunday’s look-alike contest at Meridian Hill Park is the latest in a trend of look-alike contests in major cities throughout the country. Timothee Chalamet himself showed up to his look-alike contest in New York City last month.
Watch the moment the winner was crowned below.
Winner crowned Jack Schlossberg look-alike
One person was named the look-alike of Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s only grandson and Vogue’s political correspondent. Video via X user @setotah.
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Starting XI: How the Orlando Pride will line up ahead of the NWSL Championship match against the Washington Spirit | Orlando Pride
Orlando Pride lineup: Anna Moorhouse, Cori Dyke, Emily Sams, Kylie Strom, Kerry Abello, Angelina, Haley McCutcheon, Adriana, Marta (C), Ally Watt, Barbra Banda
Substitutions: McKinley Crone, Celia, Summer Yates, Carrie Lawrence, Morgan Gautrat, Ally Lemos, Viviana Villacorta, Julie Doyle, Carson Pickett
Barbra Banda scored in the 37th minute to give the Orlando Pride their first National Women’s Soccer League championship with a 1-0 victory over the Washington Spirit on Saturday night.
Banda dribbled into the right side of the box and made a move past a defender before kicking the ball on the ground with her left foot and past the goalkeeper. She became the first player in the NWSL to score in each round of the playoffs.
The Pride’s Angelina was nearly called for a push before passing it to Banda, but the VAR determined that the play was fair.
The Spirit (20-7-2) controlled the game and outshot the Pride 25-9, had two more shots on goal and held onto possession 58% of the time. Rosemonde Kouassi had Washington’s best chance in the 47 minute when she headed a ball from about 10 yards away.
Orlando’s win gave Brazilian star Marta her first NWSL title. The 38-year-old Marta, considered arguably the greatest female soccer player of all time, joined the Orlando Pride in 2017 but had never reached an NWSL championship game until this year.
“(It’s a) magic moment for me because I’ve been in this club for so long and (to) wait for this moment, you know, so it’s… I’m just enjoy every single moment,” she told CBS News Friday ahead of the game. “…This year become like the best year in my club life.”
Top-seed Orlando (21-6-2) went unbeaten in its first 23 matches, a league record. They beat the Kansas City Current in the semifinals before hoisting the trophy at CPKC Stadium, their home field.
Orlando is the first team since 2019 to win the Shield and the title in the same year.
Washington had won its last five playoff games when trailing at the half, but that streak was broken with this loss.
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