Midwest Honor Flight is taking more than 255 veterans from northwest Iowa, South Dakota, northeast Nebraska and southwest Minnesota this spring to Washington, D.C., to visit the armed forces memorials there.
Starting in 2017, Midwest Honor Flight, headquartered in Sioux Center, has flown more than 1,600 veterans to Washington. It now costs more than $130,000 to charter a flight, and six flights are scheduled for this year alone. Five of the six flights in 2024 are sponsored -- sponsors provide most of the cost for a flight and receive naming rights for that mission. The first flight this fall, however, Mission 21, is reserved for the organization and no naming rights will be given to that flight.
This year’s first flight was completed May 7; the second was scheduled for today. June 4 is the final spring flight, Mission 20, and will carry two World War II veterans.
All veterans from WWII, Korea and Vietnam are welcome to apply, but WWII veterans and veterans with terminal medical diagnoses receive top priority for any flight. The D.C.-area tour includes stops at Arlington National Cemetery to see the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, the Iwo Jima and Air Force memorials, the Navy Memorial and the WWII, Korean War, and Vietnam War memorials.
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