Category: Honor Flight

Honor Flight Invites All To Greet Veterans June 25 — On Saturday, June 25, Honor Flight Philadelphia will bring to Washington, D.C. over 140 veterans for a day of honor to view those memorials dedicate to their service and sacrifice.

Please join upon arrival home to thank the men and women who served during World War II, Korea and Vietnam for the freedoms we cherish, for the freedoms they preserved.

The arrival is 6:15 p.m. at Saints Simon and Jude Church, 8 Cavanaugh Court, West Chester, Pa. 19382.

Come early and enjoy the activities.

For information about Honor Flight Philadelphia visit here.

Honor Flight Invites All To Greet Veterans June 25

Honor Flight Has June 25 Takeoff For Philly Area Vets — Honor Flight Philadelphia is searching for veterans to honor with a trip to Washington D.C. to view those memorials dedicated to those that have served and sacrificed so much for this great nation at NO COST to the veteran.

The mission will be on June 25 departing from Sts. Simon and Jude in West Chester.

Please reach out to Andrew @610-662-1812 andrew@honorflightphiladelphia.org.

For information about Honor Flight Philadelphia, visit here.

Honor Flight Has June 25 Takeoff For Philly Area Vets

Add a Honor Flight gray beverage cup to your Mission BBQ order and $2 will go directly to your local Honor Flight hub. Honor Flight provides a special day to veterans which features a visit to the military memorials in Washington D.C. Information about the Philadelphia hub can be found here.

Honor Flight Gray Beverage Cup Helps Heroes

A flapjack fundraiser for Honor Flight Philadelphia will be held 8 to 10 a.m.. Sunday, June 30 at Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill, 4301 Pennell Road, Aston, Pa. 19014

Tickets are $8 and gets you a short stack. Call Maggie at 484-802-6343 for information.

Honor Flight Philadlephia gives veterans a tour of the memorials in Washington D.C. followed by a dinner. There is no cost to the veterans.

Honor Flight June 2 Returns To Springfield — Honor Flight Philadelphia will be returning 250 Vietnam veterans from a Washington D.C. “Tour of Honor”,Sunday, June 2, to The Porch at The Lamb Tavern, 865 W. Springfield Road, Springfield, Pa. 19064.

Arrival is 6:15 p.m.

Residents are invited to welcome them and give them a thank you. Expect police and fire escorts

For information contact JoDean at jodean@honorflightphiladelphia.org.

Honor Flight Seeks Vietnam Vets — Honor Flight Philadelphia is seeking Vietnam veterans for a June 2 Tour of Honor. These tours give veterans a tour of the memorials in Washington D.C. followed by a dinner.

This trip’s dinner will be at the Lamb Tavern in Springfield.

No expense is incurred by the veteran.

Visit here for an application.

For information call JoDean at 610-627-1494 or email jodean@honorflightphiladelphia.org

Also Honor Flight Philadelphia will hold a Designer Bag Bingo fundraiser, March 23 at Saints Simon and Jude Church, 8 Cavanaugh Court, West Chester, Pa. 19382.

Doors open at 6 p.m. The bingo starts at 7 p.m. Admission is $35.

Being auctioned is a Louis Vuitton bag. Raffle tickets are $20 and only 100 will be sold.

For information call Andrew at 610-662-1812 or email cdomizio23@gmail.com.

Honor Flight Seeks Vietnam Vets

Remembrance Day Feast Benefits Honor Flight— Crown Chapter, Daughters of the British Empire will be commemorating Remembrance Day (Veterans Day), 4 -11 p.m., tomorrow, Nov. 19 at Stoney’s British Pub in Wilmington, Del.

On the menu are bangers and mash, toad in a hole, and bubbles and squeak.  

There will be raffles and pub trivia games, tea and sticky toffee pudding, and fish and chips.

For information contact dbinpa@yahoo.com. Reservations are suggested for dinner hours. They can be made at the above email or by calling 484-844-2980.

Ten percent of the cost of food purchases will be donated to Honor Flight Philadelphia, a charity providing U.S. veterans a bus tour of the Washington D.C. monuments and a special dinner.

Remembrance Day Feast Benefits Honor Flight

Spring Honor Flight 2017 Returns June 10 — The public is invited to greet 125 World War II and Korean War veterans when they return, 6 p.m., Saturday, June 10, to St. Kevin Church from Philadelphia Honor Flight’s Spring 2017 trip.

The church is at 200 W. Sproul Road, Springfield, Pa. 19064.

Honor Flight is a national non-profit organization founded in 2005 to give aging or terminally ill veterans a day of honor in Washington D.C.

There is no cost to the veterans.

The Philadelphia hub was started in 2011 by Springfield resident Andrew Schiavello.

Spring Honor Flight 2017 Returns June 10

Delta Honor Guard — This video of how Delta baggage handlers treat the return of military personnel who die overseas has been submitted by Cathy Domizio of Honor Flight Philadelphia.

Delta Honor Guard