WASHINGTON – Veterans, dignitaries and volunteers gathered Tuesday at the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., to mark the Honor Flight Network bringing its 250,000th veteran to the nation’s capital. The organization has been bringing veterans to Washington since 2005 by welcoming them to share in a day of honor at America’s memorials. During […]
After more than two years of waiting, the Hudson Valley Honor Flight is taking off again as a way of saying “thank you” to the region’s veterans and to transport heroes like 96-year-old World War II veteran Eddie Mindlin to the nation’s capital. “It’s an honor,” Mindlin said before the flight. “I’ve been to Washington, […]
More than 80 veterans will finally get to experience the trip of a lifetime this weekend when they take to the skies on board a Hudson Valley Honor Flight. The original flight was scheduled to take off two years ago but had to be postponed because of the pandemic. “It’s really exciting,” says Jennifer DeFrancesco, […]
Regrettably, Hudson Valley Honor Flight has decided to postpone their 2021 fall flights. In the two months since the announcement to resume flights in the fall, a rapid and alarming rise in the COVID case and hospitalization rates around the country, due in-part to the highly contagious Delta variant, has forced us to re-evaluate the […]
WALDEN, N.Y. (May 5, 2021) — While it patiently awaits approval to resume flights, Hudson Valley Honor Flight (HVHF) has kicked off an outreach campaign to remind veterans who have applied that the organization has not forgotten them. HVHF representatives will be delivering more than 700 lawn signs to the homes of veterans in the […]