COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Honor Flight Columbus recently provided a local veteran and grandmother the chance to visit memorials around Washington D.C. with her grandson by her side for every step of the journey.   Each Honor Flight trip is called a mission. On Mission 136, Honor Flight Columbus celebrated taking 10,000 veterans to the nation's capital.  "I am so honored and so grateful to meet such good people,” Suzanne Dirck, one of the veterans on Mission 136, said. “They’re good volunteers and the people that served, they’re wonderful people.”  Every veteran on the missions has a volunteer guardian they're paired with. Dirck's guardian was her grandson, Leopold Harden.   “He’s with me and that's good, isn't it?” Dirck said. “He’s 6'5" and I'm 4'11", so I hope I didn't trip him up."  Harden helped her get around Washington D.C. as they stopped at different memorials and monuments.   At the Vietnam War Memorial, she saw names of corpsmen she knew who made the ultimate sacrifice. Dirck was a Navy nurse at the Bethesda Naval Hospital during the Vietnam War, caring for amputees, burn patients, and psychiatric patients.  “I always remember what I saw there, and I'll never forget, never forget that, and so this, to see people that have made it through the years is so amazing," she said.   The last stop of the day was at the Military Women's Memorial, where Dirck was given her Military Women's Memorial profile and certificate.   "She specifically remembered the large amount of soldiers that were admitted after the Tet Offensive," she read from the profile. "The advice to the young women or men considering the military is that the service is so inspiring, it is so rewarding. She encourages anyone who isn't sure about what they want to do to consider the military service.”  Her grandson took that advice. He wants to be in the Air Force.   “It’s crazy to see how much she’s gone through, and we wouldn't be here today without her support and everything, so I'm very thankful she’s here with me today to show me all this history behind it," Harden said.  Their day together in Columbus started before the sun came up. It ended in Washington D.C. as the sun set. It was a day full of moments they will both cherish.   “My husband dropped me off at the airport and he’ll be by there to get me tonight, but I have had such a grand time in between, I don't even know how to explain it to him. It’s wonderful," Dirck said.