-Messenger file photo
Greeters at the Fort Dodge Regional Airport had just caught sight of the first World War II veterans getting off the Honor Flight plane, greeted by waving flags and cheers. Joanne Nealon, of West Des Moines, in yellow, and her son, Connor Nealon, then 12, hold a sign for her father, Richard Fox, of Algona, the first man off the plane, while her mother, Barbara, watches from her lawn chair in the background.