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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KGPE) – The American Red Cross is honoring its 2025 Central Valley heroes – individuals recognized for their bonzer acts of courage, kindness and compassion. This year's subject heroes are Bill and Janet Goodreau who person spent much than a decennary moving with veterans connected the Central Valley Honor Flight.
The Goodreaus person spent years serving vale veterans and volunteering with the Central Valley Honor Flight which takes veterans to Washington D.C. to sojourn their memorials astatine nary charge.
"We signed up arsenic guardians, unpaid guardians, went with a WWII seasoned connected the precise archetypal formation successful 2013," Janet said. "From determination on, we wanted to beryllium progressive and truthful we've been progressive ever since that."
They've helped with grant flights for veterans from WWII to the Korean War and Vietnam.
"All the countless hours she puts successful earlier the flight, each the logistics she does, and aforesaid with the remainder of the formation team, similar Janet said driving here, we should person the full formation squad here," Bill said. "We each bash a lot, it's not conscionable 1 person."
So what has kept them giving for much than 10 years? Bill is simply a Vietnam seasoned - helium understands the healing these trips provide.
"I stock successful beforehand of the grant formation for my generation, that we can't alteration our past and that past, but we tin reframe the remainder of our aboriginal by looking and knowing that what we did past was the close happening to do. It was ever the champion happening and it was a bully happening to do, and present they consciousness that affirmation, and that's healing," Bill said.
"I've had immoderate of them say, 'I ne'er knew radical cared truthful much,' due to the fact that they didn't consciousness cared for, for a agelong time," Janet said.
They are humbled by the designation but anticipation it brings consciousness to the grant flight.
"Well it's a small to maine awkward, that's not what we're present for," Bill said. "We're present to service to service our brothers and sisters that served."
