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Honor Flight

Posted by Ron Hoeft on 4/13/2019, 2:53 pm

I know this has nothing to do with Impalas/cars, I just got back from a trip to D.C with Honor Flight out of Columbus,Oh, if any one on this board qualifies to go P L E A S E fill out an application to go.
I can not tell you how much it meant to go on that trip. Any one that wants to talk about it either email me or PM me.
Have a great weekend,Ron

Re: Honor Flight

Posted by Gene on 4/14/2019, 7:31 pm, in reply to "Honor Flight"

The older guy that works for me escorted a guy that went,he was really impressed

Re: Honor Flight

Posted by Paul Winvoices on 4/14/2019, 8:43 am, in reply to "Honor Flight"

GOD bless our Veterans and Service personnel

Paul

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Re: Honor Flight

Posted by steveimpala on 4/14/2019, 7:08 am, in reply to "Honor Flight"

Ron - My friend that serve in Vietnam went yesterday as well.... my Uncle that serve in Korea went a few years ago... they said it was unbelievable !

Steve

Steve

Re: Honor Flight

Posted by Ron Hoeft on 4/14/2019, 9:12 am, in reply to "Re: Honor Flight"

A friend who served during the Korea war was suppose to go with me but died of cancer a week before the trip, I took his Army picture, obituary along with a couple other things and layed them at the base of the Korean Memorial.
I collected $155.00 from coffee guys and handed the head guy of Honor Flight a check in his name dedicated to the Honor Flight at the Memorial. Did not have a dry eye.

I then went to the Vietnam Memorial and got pencil etchings of five (5) names of the guys killed out of my senior class, going to take them to our next class reunion.

God Bless America

Re: Honor Flight

Posted by 367's on 4/19/2019, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Honor Flight"

Here's a link to a fairly short (but well worth the time to watch) video clip from a local news broadcast that does a great job describing what Ron and others got to experience on their Honor Flights.

Very well done and needless to say, an expression of thanks that was way overdue!

http://www.honorflightnorthernnm.org/

Re: Honor Flight

Posted by Ron Hoeft on 4/20/2019, 6:08 am, in reply to "Re: Honor Flight"

367's,
Thanks for posting, God Bless.
To show you how much this has grown, here are the numbers of Veterans from my flight last week:
4 World War II
20 Korea
7 Purple Heart
And along with me, 86 Vietnam
We had several Desert Storm along as guardian's bringing the total to 116 Veterans
Happy Easter every one and God Bless America,Ron

Re: Honor Flight

Posted by Bill H on 4/20/2019, 7:47 am, in reply to "Re: Honor Flight"

Ron,

Thank you for your service. Some day we will meet again.

Bill

PS- a glorious Easter to all.

Re: Honor Flight

Posted by Ron Hoeft on 4/23/2019, 4:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Honor Flight"

Bill H
I look forward to that day.
Have great week,Ron

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