PGR_NTX Patriot Guard Short Notice Mission - WWII Veterans Escort EARLY Tuesday Morning

[Mission Information For North Texas PGR]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

The PGR has been asked to participate in an escort to take a bus load of
WWII veterans from the Waxahachie civic center to Love Field very early
Tuesday morning.  The organization "Honor Flight" will be flying these
veterans free of charge to Washington DC to visit the WWII memorial and see
a couple of other things in Washington.  Honor Flight's mission is to get as
many of the WWII veterans to Washington to see their memorial as possible
before they are all gone forever.  It took over 60 years for the members of
The Greatest Generation to have their memorial built and many are now too
old and ill to make the trip and Honor Flight's mission is to take these
people to see it.  The entire trip is free to the veterans and paid for
entirely by donations.

 

Here's where the famous PGR dedication to veterans comes in.  The bus
carrying these veterans is scheduled to leave Waxahachie at 4:25 AM on
Tuesday morning.  We have also been asked to escort on the return trip from
Love Field back to Waxahachie on Wednesday.  That flight gets in to Love
Field at 10:55 PM on Wednesday night.  No typos - those are the correct
times.

 

Please forgive me for being a bit blunt here, but I'm going to be.  With the
rate at which WWII veterans are dying, approximately 1500 to 2000 a day,
there is a real chance that most of us may not get to do something tangible
for a WWII veteran other than attend their funeral.  These people are in
their 80's and above.  Personally, I relish the opportunity.

 

I am including here a couple of links.  One is to an 8 minute video of an
actual Honor Flight mission taking WWII veterans to DC to visit the memorial
so you can see what one looks like.  I think you'll enjoy it and see what
this organization does and then impact it has on the veterans.  It is:
http://www.ohiowarstories.org/wp/?p=29 

 

The other is the Honor Flight home page.  It is:
http://www.honorflight.org/ 

 

Mark and Wendy Ignersoll will be the Ride Captains for this mission and will
be posting a final itinerary shortly.  We will be joining the Blue Knights
Law Enforcement Motorcyclists for this mission.  I hope to see you there.

 

Sorry for the long post but since this is an unusual sort of mission for us
I thought I'd take a little extra space to explain what it's about.

 

Steve Lucas

 

 
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