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'Patriot Way': Team Plane Flew Soldiers Home for Memorial Day

The 'Patriot Way' scored a special "touchdown" this Memorial Day.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft loaned one of the team's two airplanes - the "AirKrafts" - to fly U.S. soldiers from Germany to be home on American soil for the military holiday.

With a 2022 military budget of $782 billion, you'd think the U.S. could make time - and spend its own dime - affording the luxury for service personnel overseas, but that's another story for another time. Kraft, as he did in 2018 by flying Parkland High School students and families to Washington, D.C. for the "March for Our Lives" rally in the wake of the shooting - comes to the rescue again with an, um, Patriotic act of kindness.