Fort Wayne, IN – Honor Flight Northeast Indiana (HFNEI) will celebrate its 49th flight to Washington D.C. on Wednesday, October 16, 2024.
Sixteen Community Foundations in Northeast Indiana will be the proud sponsors of the flight that will take 85 veterans to Washington, DC to see the memorials built in their honor. Four Korean War veterans, Two Cold War veterans, Seventy-Eight Vietnam War veterans, One Lebanon/Grenada veteran and One Desert Storm veteran will be traveling on Flight #49. Since it was established in 2008, Honor Flight Northeast Indiana has taken 3,905 veterans to Washington, DC.
Community Foundations in Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Grant, Huntington, Jay, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Miami, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Wells, and Whitley Counties have collectively granted the funds needed to pay for the flight.
Doug Inman, Executive Director of The Portland Foundation in Jay County, and Honor Flight Northeast Indiana Volunteer Corps Member stated: “All community foundations, at their core, exist to enhance the quality of life in their respective communities. The quality of life enjoyed in these communities is due in part to servicemen and servicewomen protecting the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. The Community Foundations funding Flight #49 is their way of saying thank you to these veterans.”
Honor Flight Northeast Indiana President, Cathy Berkshire and the entire staff of volunteers are very excited to have the support of so many of the Community Foundations of Indiana to help honor our Veteran Heroes by taking them to see the Memorials built in their honor. The men and women who have served this country and sacrificed so much, are thrilled to get this opportunity and to have so many counties join in the effort to give them this trip is indeed a reason to celebrate.
Honor Flight NE Indiana, Inc. is a volunteer, nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
