Posts Tagged ‘Washington’
HBO coordinates with Honor Flight to kick off the Season
Hello Dedicated Honor Flight Ground Crew and NEW Volunteers! Honor Flight is starting the season off with a tremendous event. 400 WWII veterans from Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, New York, and Orlando are being flown to DC to view a screening of HBO “The Pacific” and to see the memorial built in their honor. We have […]
Honor Flight Training for Washington, DC guardians
In preparation for Honor Flight season and several flights that are requesting multiple guardians from the local area – we are scheduling Guardian Training for any who would be interested in attending. The training will be held at: American Legion Dyer Gunnell Post 180 330 North Center Street Vienna, VA 22180 1-3 PM or 1300-1500 “The […]
MacArthur’s Acceptance of Japanese Surrender
Historical Footage: Japanese Surrender Signing Aboard Battleship Missouri Sunday Sept. 2, 1945. From Rick Sage in Michigan, I got the following information: “This is an actual film made of the surrender ceremony of the Japanese to McArthur in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. You can hear the actual voice of the General. Never been shown to the […]
Honor Flight Summit 2010
Honor Flight is holding a Summit at the BWI Hilton for all of the regional hubs. It starts on Friday and winds down on Sunday. There will be lectures on starting an Honor Flight, non-profit status, safety procedures, fund raising, etc… and a great opportunity for old friends to get together. I am very much […]
Frank Buckles and the WWI Memorial
From Susan Barr Frank Buckles, 108, the last remaining US veteran of World War I, was going before a US Senate sub-committee today to re-designate the WWI Memorial in DC, as THE WWI Memorial. The WWI Memorial is located between the WWII and Korean War Monuments on Independence Avenue, and is not located on most […]
Senator Dole on the Mend
From Judy Lemmons Senator Dole’s office reports “he is quite well, working from home and doing his daily physical therapy to build up his strength. He may come in later this week or next depending on how the PT is going. He commented on how much better he feels already and has been so optimistic! […]
VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN!!!
Jeff Miller, our co-founder (the guy who got the charter operations on the roll) from North Carolina wrote to tell me the Asheville Airport is having a contest and if you vote for the Hendersonville Printing Tree, they get money to send two Honor Flights so….as it’s all in our family, ….VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN!!! Please […]
Honor Flight Chicago’s Blog
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Herb Striner: a photographer who can count!
Congratulations to Herb Striner. Former Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University, Economist Herbert E. Striner, also worked in the corporate and public sectors. His photography has been featured in exhibits and publications. This collection consists of over 9,000 black & white negatives, color slides, and color negatives depicting a wide variety of subjects […]
…they will never forget the way you made them feel.
From Judy Lemmons, Dir, Public Relations/Protocol Honor Flight Network CONGRATULATIONS to all the amazing, talented, selfless and dedicated volunteers who have time and again supported over 278 flights during 2009 with 17,832 vets and 8,704 guardians for a total of 35,996 veterans who have been blessed to visit their memorial over the past four years! […]
George Kerestes on Greeting Veterans at the WWII Memorial
George Kerestes was interviewed by South Dakota’s Keloland Television and got a nice write up regarding his four years of greeting Veterans at the WWII Memorial. He says: “Now that I look back and realize these were my neighbors growing up and I never extended my hand,” Kerestes said. “So in my own way, this […]
Today went amazing!!! by Amanda Nerwin – Honor Flight
Forwarded to Mary Pettinato, Honor Flight Chicago Hey Mary!! Today went amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We had the store decorated in red, white, and blue and it looked great!! So many Veterans showed up and it was great to see them all sit together with their coffee and donut and share stories! The Des Plaines city clerk also came by and sat […]
Fundraising for Honor Flight’s DC Ground Crew
Lona Ichikawa (Honor Flight’s DC Ground Crew Chief and Judy Wybenga, Dulles Ground crew Chief held an end of season fund raising for the DC Ground Crew at American Legion Post 180 in Vienna, Virginia this weekend and also took the opportunity to recognize some of their volunteers. I will post the pictures later […]
Honor Flight Southwest
Honor Air may have begun a new chapter with Southwest Airways sponsorship arranged by Judy Lemmons who is the glue that holds Honor Flight together. She and Susan Barr brought twenty-one veterans from California and their guardians to visit the Memorial and …it was obvious it wasn’t California. It was a “NorEaster” with gusty winds […]
800 Veterans and eleven hubs
And so if you were wondering where I’ve been in the past few weeks, I’ve been working on my latest book on DC and saving my energy up for today when 800 veterans plus guardians…a total of probably 1200 plus assorted military personnel, motorcycle police and riding groups, mounted police, guardians, school kids and relatives […]
Last Tent Day for Honor Flight Season
Tomorrow may be our last tent day for the Honor Flight season. We have two tents bundles rented and 3 hubs scheduled to use the tents as shown on Diane’s HF schedule and I have volunteers to staff it. I am not sure about the 7th of November. I don’t know what the funding looks […]
DC PHOTO BOOK
My apologies to those I haven’t seen down at the Memorial of late but I’ve been feverishly getting the final photographs together for a new book…DCPHOTOBOOK an insiders look at DC. We just locked down the layout yesterday so I am hoping to catch the last few flights in November. Hope all of you are […]
A Photo Recommendation and Northwest Ohio and Central Illinois
Central Illinois and Northwest Ohio came in today and were greeted by Senator and Mrs. Dole. As you will notice, I made the photographs of the Central Illinois group on the 17th Street (Washington Monument) side of the World War II Memorial. Photographing groups on the 17th Street entrance is WONDERFUL and I would like […]
Central Missouri, Siouxland and Central Iowa Honor Flights
There were buses unloading on 178th Street today as Central Iowa Honor Flight alone brought in 350 veterans. The weather was perfect and with the addition of Central Missouri and Siouxland Honor Flights, the World War II Memorial was jam packed with veterans in a variety of blues and yellows. All told, between veterans and […]
Six-Burgh–That is Pittsburgh Arrives
Photos and text by George Kerestes, National Park Service and Pittsburgh Native On another beautiful fall day in Washington 100 World War II Veterans, plus their volunteers, visit their Memorial. Although not part of the Honor Flight Network, the Pittsburgh numbers are very impressive. The Pittsburgh group originated with Jim Hilts, of Coraopolis, a Vietnam War […]
Mike Kilmer’s Letter to the Casper Star Tribune
Dear Editor: Fred Klein, Jack Kelly and Pamela Atkins.wrote 3 letters in CST concerning the Honor Flight of Wyoming vets to WW!! Memorial in Washington, DC. I just wanted to add what little I can in expressing my heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped organize and finance this extraordinarily inspirational trip. There was […]
Eight State Honor Flights at World War II Memorial
There were Honor Flights from eight states repsresented at the World War II Memorial today and rumored to be between 700 and 1200 veterans. Senators Robert and Elizabeth Dole were there as was Mike Marshall bearing news of a new boy in the family. Everyone was photographing and the weather held out nicely as everyone […]
Northern Valley Honor Flight Visits World War II Memorial
North Dakota thundered into the World War II Memorial today lead by Tim Koski and supported by a group of guardians and supporters from past flights. North Dakota has been so successful in Fargo (due in large part to Lance Akers and Jennine Albrecht’s fund raising efforts) that they have been able to cover the rest of the state. Senators […]