Honor Flight Mail Call & Welcome Home

We are so honored to be partnering with Honor Flight DFW for our Community Service event.  We encourage the whole family to participate.

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. The Honor Flight program started in 2004 and Honor Flight DFW was established in September 2008 to bring this wonderful effort to the Dallas/Ft Worth/North Texas area. The first flight departed DFW in 2009 and, to date, Honor Flight DFW has flown over 2,000 WWII, Korean and Vietnam veterans to Washington, DC. The all expense paid, overnight trip to Washington, DC includes visits to: WWII, Korean, Vietnam, Marine (Iwo Jima), Navy and Air Force Memorials and Arlington Cemetery.

During the flight, they do "Mail Call" which is something all soldiers looked forward to in order to hear from back home. We are going to provide cards, photos and letters to those veterans aboard the trip.  During the mail call, each veteran will be provided with the individual items for each soldier to read. Their Guardians are there to assist if they need it.  My uncle was one of the Guardians on a prior flight and he said that was the first time his veteran had ever been thanked for his service.  Can you imagine?  What an impact our Pack family can have on their trip!  You can write letters, have your family draw photos... divide up the names so that everyone has something. (Oh, and Mr. Wesson on the list...  That's my uncle!)  The Honor Flight Name List is HERE

I need ALL LETTERS TO ME BY MAY 27.  I will mail them to Honor Flight. Their deadline is June 3 so I want to allow a week to get them there.

As they finish their flight itinerary and head back to DFW, we are invited with our family and friends to come welcome them home. 

If you'll notice from the list, many of these veterans are from the Vietnam conflict so this will, in essence, be their FIRST "welcome" home.  Please consider investing the time to make this happen. I get it's late, but they are worth it!  

Scouts should be in Full Field Uniform -- make signs, bring flags and let's welcome these heroes home in style!  They will arrive June 11 at 9:45 pm on Southwest Flight #6904. They are asking those attending to start arriving at 9:00 pm at the top of the escalator at Love Landing.  Park in any of the garages there at Love Field Airport.  

One website has a great tutorial on making easy signs for this event.  Check her out HERE