To be considered, interested veterans need to fill out an application form found at The application can be filled out and submitted online or printed out and returned by mail, or call the hotline, 51 for details. The Flightless Honor Flight is open to all veterans 65 or older who are unable to participate in the day-long Honor Flight. They just bend over backwards for us and the veterans.”
Now they are giving us a big room and decorating it for us. They set up chairs for people to watch while waiting. They set up a theater where we show our CD the whole time. So I work with these same people all the time,” he said. While similar to the Florida program, this Flightless Honor Flight is unique primarily due to the cooperation of the airport, Brockhoff said. “We liked the idea and crafted it for how it would work in Cincinnati and how we could best honor these veterans who couldn’t go on the trip anymore,” Popp said. A chapter in Florida had a Flightless Honor Flight it offered in a retirement village. The inspiration for the flightless experience came from an Honor Flight conference the Popps attended. The two groups of veterans will combine before going to the welcome home rally. “It’s an 18-hour day compacted into 48 minutes with the sounds of the guys and the sights,” Popp said of the movie.įrom the comfort of the conference room that features a wall of windows, the veterans will be able to see the day’s Honor Flight return and offload its veterans. “So we call this the welcome home they never got. The vast majority didn’t get that welcome home,” Honor Flight Tri-State volunteer/Flightless Honor Flight organizer and Grant County veteran Kim Brockhoff said.
We were asked to remove our uniforms when we got home. Or, Mail Call can be dropped off, address above, up until the week prior to the mission at the Airport Administration Office, on the.
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C/O 'Veterans Full Name Here' (not Dad, Mom or Grandpa, etc.) W6390 Challenger Drive, Suite 243. One of the highlights of any Honor Flight trip is the welcome home rally. Please send all the Mail Call mail in ONE LARGE ENVELOPE to: Old Glory Honor Flight Mail Call. The first Flightless Honor Flight is scheduled to coincide with the regularly scheduled Sept. “We’re hoping to do one in the spring and one in the fall each year,” she said. This new program is designed to give veterans who are medically unable to manage the 18-hour Honor Flight trip a way to enjoy the special experience, Symmes Township resident and Honor Flight Director Cheryl Popp said. 20, at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
No wings are required for veterans participating in the most recent offering of Honor Flight Tri-State.Ī new Flightless Honor Flight debuts Tuesday, Sept.
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