{"id":14227,"date":"2016-05-21T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T19:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=14227"},"modified":"2016-05-19T08:44:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T12:44:50","slug":"honor-flight-credits-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/honor-flight-credits-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Flight Credits Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NE-indiana-honor-flight-May-25.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14228\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/NE-indiana-honor-flight-May-25.jpg?resize=666%2C357\" alt=\"NE indiana honor-flight May 25\" width=\"666\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a>Honor Flight Northeast Indiana (HFNEI) will make its 20th flight to Washington D.C. on Wednesday, May 25th.<\/p>\n<p>This flight isn\u2019t solely about the 83 deserving Veterans who are scheduled to participate. Flight #20 is also dedicated to Laura Carrico, the founder of Honor Flight Northeast Indiana. It has been affectionately dubbed the \u201cBecause of Laura\u201d flight and will pay tribute to Laura and the original five board members, who with her leadership, brought about the first flight on May 13, 2009. Since then, 1300 Veterans have traveled to Washington D.C. to reflect at the memorials built in their honor. There are several surprises in store for Laura and her board.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Flight #20 includes 29 WWII, 53 Korean and one Viet Nam Veteran for a total of 83 Veterans, one of which is 96 years old. The first flight for the hub in 2009 escorted 27 Veterans.<\/p>\n<p>The veterans and volunteer guardians will gather at the 122nd Air National Guard Fighter Wing at 6:00 a.m. with take-off projected to be at 8:30 a.m. Returning home, the community is encouraged to patriotically welcome the veterans in the Main Terminal of the Fort Wayne International Airport the evening of May 25. Return time is tentative, but expected to be at approximately 8:30 p.m. More information regarding the public\u2019s participation and return timing will be shared on the group\u2019s Facebook page at HFNEI.<\/p>\n<p>95% of all donations go directly towards the veterans\u2019 trips. Honor Flight NE Indiana, Inc. is a volunteer, nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization. Donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law. It is Honor Flight Northeast Indiana\u2019s mission to act quickly to serve those who would still like to have the opportunity to see this memorial that was built in their honor before it is too late.<\/p>\n<p>*Honor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc. is not endorsed or funded by the Indiana Air National Guard.<\/p>\n<p><i>www.newhavenbulletin.com<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honor Flight Northeast Indiana (HFNEI) will make its 20th flight to Washington D.C. on Wednesday, May 25th. This flight isn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5083,5497,12,5278],"class_list":["post-14227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-honor-flight","tag-northeast-indiana","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-department-of-natural-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-3Ht","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 05:11:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}