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Six essential qualities that
are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy,
wisdom, charity. - William Menninger
Honor Flight Fayette VP Speaks to PTC American
Legion Post 50
3/6/08 (9:09 p.m.) Vice President of Honor Flight Fayette, Mark Buckner, spoke
recently to Peachtree City American Legion Post 50 regarding the foundation's
scheduled May 14th trip to the nation's capitol, which will be a free day trip
for the WWII veterans who are going on the flight. However, so many veterans
signed up that some will have to be placed on a list for the next flight, which
organizers hope to plan for next fall.
It has been determined that it will take $50,000 to make the
first flight, and so far only about $14,000 has been raised toward this cause. But Buckner
and Gail Sparrow, President of HFF, believe that the citizens and businesses of
this county will come through and help make this dream a reality for the
deserving men and women of WWII who helped preserve the freedoms we have today.
Honor Flight Fayette is a grass roots project, and everyone
involved is a volunteer whose sole interest is saying "thank you" to the
veterans. It is a labor of love, dedication and determination for them to see
that this project is a success so that more flights can be scheduled, as we are
losing WWII veterans at the rate of 1,200 to 1,500 per day in this country.
Obviously, time is of the essence and critical to those veterans wishing to make
the trip and who have expressed surprise and excitement about being taken to see
their memorial, which was completed almost 60 years after the end of the war.
And we must ask ourselves, "at what cost did they
secure my freedom and how can I repay them?
Honor Flight Fayette is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
with a board of directors to guide the effort and keep it on track.
If you would like to know more about HFF, be a guardian or
volunteer, or wish to make a donation please check honorflightfayette.org or
call 770-719-1024.
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