Honor Flight Chicago Welcome Home Celebration
Expecting 2,000+ patriots greeting our returning war heroes
Midway Airport - Lower Level Baggage Claims
August 31, 2011 - 7:55pm
Honor Flight Chicago will escort approximately 98 World War II veterans on Wednesday, August 31, to Washington, DC in a series of “honor flights” dedicated to honoring WWII Veterans living in the Chicagoland area.
An early morning departure from Midway Airport begins a day of remembrance and reminiscing for these veterans who have waited over sixty five years to see their memorial. In addition to seeing the long awaited World War II Memorial, these veterans will also visit the Air & Space Museum and other memorials, as time and weather permit.
The day‟s adventure concludes back in Chicago with a Welcome Home Celebration where family, friends, associates, and strangers assemble at Midway Airport‟s Baggage Claim. Awaiting the plane‟s arrival from Dulles Airport, they are joined by color guards, bagpipers, scouts, motorcycle clubs, and, hundreds if not thousands, of volunteers and active duty military personnel. Met with balloons, signs and songs, these senior veterans at last get the kind of “welcome home” they missed in 1945.
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