Honor Flight 2014
6th Annual Veterans Honor Flight is Coming Up
Dave Williamson, Veterans Honor Flight Coordinator
Greetings Rotary: Wanted to provide an update on one of the club’s favorite projects – the annual Veterans Honor Flight. This year’s flight will take place on Sunday, October 5th. We have three airplanes currently available and can accommodate up to 12 veterans and caregivers as needed. We depart
Don Scott Airport here in Columbus at around 6:30 a.m. and return that evening around 7:30 p.m. I am encouraging members to canvas their family, neighbors, friends and acquaintances for names of veterans they know who would be interested in flying to Washington D.C. and touring their memorials with us this year.
We are actively soliciting applications from veterans for this year’s flight. We fly on private airplanes to Manassas, VA where we load into vans and drive into D.C. for our tours of the WWII Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and Vietnam Memorial in the morning. We have lunch at Fort Meyer Army Post and then travel to the Air Force Memorial, Pentagon Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery and observe the Changing of the Guard Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns, and finally over to the Iwo Jima Memorial before heading back to the Manassas airport and flight home. It is a long day, but on each of our previous trips our veterans have commented how important it was to see them all as each one had a special meaning to each of them.
We are open to accepting applications from veterans of WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War eras. The application is available at the Friday club meeting, is posted on the club web site, or can be obtained from me personally via email or just call and I can send one out.
If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me via phone (614-327-8102) or by email at Dave448@columbus.rr.com and I would be happy to answer them for you.