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What is Honor Flight™? Honor Flight™
is a network of volunteers established for the express purpose of
getting as many WWII Veterans as possible to Washington, DC to view the
World
War II Memorial. Honor Flight™ was originally set up in 2004 by
Earl Morse, a physician's assistant from Ohio.
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. 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.

Photo by Richard Latoff
Click the photo for a larger image by Richard Latoff of the Memorial
Plaza
Honor Flight™ of Dallas was
established in September 2008 to bring this wonderful effort to the Dallas/Ft Worth/North Texas area,
honor the service of the WWII Veterans in this region, and to take as
many of them as possible to view THEIR memorial in the nation's capital.
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