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WELCOME

ALL FLIGHTS FOR SEPT. 6, 2008 HAVE BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO TROPICAL STORM HANNAH.  WE WANT OUR VETS AND GUARDIANS TO BE SAFE!!!

PLEASE DONATE NOW, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

If you would like a tribute to accompany your donation, please e-mail who you would like the honor with your donation to tribute@honorflight.org.

WWW.HONORFLIGHT.COM AND WWW.HONORFLIGHTS.COM ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH HONOR FLIGHT, INC.  THEIR LISTED LINKS ARE TO COMPANIES WHO CHARGE A FEE FOR FLIGHTS TO VISIT THE WWII MEMORIAL.  THE FLIGHTS AND TOURS THAT WE PROVIDE WWII AND TERMINALLY ILL VETERANS ARE ABSOLUTELY FREE.  


The above photo was taken by R.A. Makley Photographic Images.

 

Welcome

Honor Flight is a non profit organization created solely to honor America’s veterans for all their sacrifices. We fly our heroes to Washington, DC to visit and reflect at their memorials. Top priority is given to the senior veterans – WW II survivors along with those other veterans that may be terminally ill. Honor Flight first flew in May 2005 with six small planes flying 12 WW II veterans, departing out of Springfield, Ohio.  In 2006, with a waiting list of veterans expanding rapidly, we transitioned to commercial airline carriers to accommodate the maximum number of veterans as possible.  Partnering with HonorAir in Hendersonville, North Carolina and Hero Flight in Provo, Utah,  we formed the “Honor Flight Network.”  Together, we are aggressively expanding our programs to other cities across the nation in 2007. Based on recent statistics, we are losing WW II veterans at the rate of 1200 per day. Honor Flight will continue do whatever it takes to fulfill the dreams of our veterans and, very importantly, our senior heroes travel absolutely free.

Subsequent to the WW II veterans, our efforts will then focus on our Korean and then Vietnam veterans, honoring them similarly.

HONOR FLIGHT – our way of paying a small tribute to those that gave so much; to take a memorable, safe, and rewarding FLIGHT with HONOR!!!

  

Sometimes we're asked "Why Honor Flight?".  "Dr. Sam" says it best!

The Veterans of World War Two are currently dying at the rate of approximately 1,200 per day.  Of all of the wars of the 20th century, World War Two truly threatened our very existence as a nation and as a culturally diverse, free society. Samuel R. Bierstock "Dr. Sam" has written "Before You Go" as a profoundly heartfelt "Thank You" and tribute to the men and women who fought this worst and greatest of wars on our behalf, and who truly saved our lives and our way of life.

His goal is to get this song to every living veteran of World War Two while we still have them, and to their families and survivors. Please help us by forwarding this link to every World War Two veteran (or their families and descendants) that you know. 

We have not thanked them enough.

Just click on this link to hear our song and view our show of thanks - then please send it on.

http://www.beforeyougo.us

 

"We can't all be heroes.  Some of us have to stand on the curb and clap as they go by."  ---- Will Rogers