NEWS
Highlights from our 119th flight
We did it! With the completion of a phenomenal HFC119 mission, our 2024 flight season came to a close. Exactly 800 senior war heroes received their long-deserved Day of Honor, Thanks, and Inspiration in our nation’s capital this year.
Thomas Dilley: ‘Why take it out on us? We were kids.’
At just 18, Thomas “Tom” Dilley walked into the draft board in Harvey, Illinois, determined to accelerate his enlistment for the Vietnam War.
Kenneth ‘Burgy’ Burmeister: ‘I was lucky as can be’
Ken "Burgy" Burmeister was 19-years-old when he moved up his draft number in August 1969 to choose service in the Army, following in his father's footsteps.
PODCAST: HONOR. THANK. INSPIRE.
Honor. Thank. Inspire. is a new Podcast from Honor Flight Chicago where we sit down with our senior war heroes and hear — in their own words — their experiences in service to our nation. Hosted by long-time ABC 7 Chicago reporter and HFC board member Paul Meincke, Honor. Thank. Inspire. captures living history via first-person accounts of war from the actual men and women who served and sacrificed.
Subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
HONORING OUR HEROES
HFC veterans by service
Honor Flight Chicago 2022 Day of Honor Documentary
THANKING OUR MEDICAL GUARDIANS
With the COVID-19 pandemic grounding flights in 2020, Honor Flight Chicago put an increased focus on our Medical Guardians, many of whom were on the front lines of treating coronavirus patients. Several took a few minutes out of their busy days to talk about COVID-19, their work with Honor Flight Chicago, and the strangeness of being called heroes.
