Kids Care Clubs
Mail Call for the Honor Flight Network

The Barka Kids Care Club in Derry, NH recently participated in sending letters to World War II veterans who were travelling to see the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, with the Honor Flight Network. 

Honor Flight Network was started by Earl Morse, a retired Air Force Captain.  In May of 2004, the World War II Memorial was completed.  After seeing the excitement of the veterans he worked with at a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic in Springfield, OH, Earl was determined to find a way to get these veterans to fly to the Memorial and provide an escort while there at no cost to the veterans. 

The first flight took off in 2005 and flew 12 veterans to the Memorial.  In 2009, Honor Flight Network flew 17,832 veterans to see the Memorial.  The plan is to expand this program to Korean and Vietnam veterans.

Mail Call
The phrase "Mail Call" has always been a universally welcome sound to service member throughout the years. Your club can write letters, thanking veterans for their service.  These letters will be distributed to them, as they ride the bus from the airport in Baltimore to Washington, DC. To learn more about Honor Flight Network and to find the representative in your state who would take the letters click on Honor Flight Network.