![]() ![]() “The Southeast Florida Honor Flight Board of Directors determined their best course of action based on risk assessment and averting the possibility of exposing their older, vulnerable veterans to the COVID-19 virus,” she said. >Fifty years later, local Vietnam vets finally come home to a hero’s welcome The Southeast Florida group canceled its April 11 and May 30 flights but will take those veterans on its fall flights, Sept. >This Honor Flight was the first to mostly contain Vietnam vetsĮach flight, on chartered American Airlines A321 Airbus, carries 80 volunteers, 80 of their guardians and 22 additional volunteers. Honor Flight takes veterans of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War to their wars’ memorials on the National Mall, and to the Air Force Memorial and to a Arlington National Cemetery changing of the guard ceremony. “But their health and welfare comes first.” “A lot of them even say that: ’I don’t know if I’ll even make it to the next one,” Sreenan said. >Honor Flight special for families as well as veterans “This was difficult for us, knowing that for a lot of these veterans, their clock is ticking and they’ve been waiting to go for so long,” said Kathy Sreenan, spokeswoman for the Southeast Florida group. ![]() Rochester (N.Y.) Honor Flight was the first. The regional nonprofit is believed to be just the second of its parent’s 125 hubs in 45 states to cancel flights in light of the disease’s global spread. >PHOTOS: Honor Flight takes care of veterans WEST PALM BEACH - With the most vulnerable among us being urged to avoid air travel, coronavirus fears on Sunday led Stuart-based Southeast Florida Honor Flight to cancel its two spring flights that treat war veterans to visit memorials in Washington, D.C. ![]()
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