{"id":86410,"date":"2019-11-11T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86410"},"modified":"2019-11-11T07:28:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T12:28:22","slug":"nyt-mission-escorting-veterans-down-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86410","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Mission: Escorting Veterans Down Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2004, shortly after the national World War II Memorial was completed, Earl Morse, a retired Air Force captain working at the Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Springfield, Ohio, realized that many of the veterans he knew would never get to see it.<\/p>\n

So he persuaded pilots at his local flying club to ferry a handful of veterans to Washington on small planes, and accompany them to the National Mall.<\/p>\n

Jeff Miller, who owns a dry cleaning company in Hendersonville, N.C., soon added chartered commercial jets to the impromptu enterprise.<\/p>\n

From there blossomed an entire organization, known as the Honor Flight Network, which since 2005 has carried nearly a quarter-million veterans of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars to Washington.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur mission is to transport our veterans to visit the memorials that are dedicated to honoring their sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n

From across the US, private planes and commercial airliners take veterans to the capital to see monuments dedicated to them. https:\/\/t.co\/bcpJ0WnX5Y<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) November 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n