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Flightless Honor Flight March 8th · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I love Honor Flight tri stay low what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: for the American veteran. I have had the blessing twice
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  Speaker 1: in my life to be a guardian on an Honor flight.
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  Speaker 1: What an amazing, amazing thing that is. And someone who
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  Speaker 1: keeps this energy going for Honor Flight. Trice Date, Cheryl
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  Speaker 1: Pop Welcome back to the fifty five KRCY morning. We
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  Speaker 1: heard from Mike earlier Cribbage Mike, and he's still actively
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  Speaker 1: involved in Honor Flight, and I was giving you praise
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  Speaker 1: this morning for all the work you're doing, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'll behalf in a way of the veterans
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  Speaker 1: out there, but you're just doing a great job for
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  Speaker 1: Honor Flight. Got one coming up, don't we, Cheryl.
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  Speaker 2: We sure do, thanks to Mike and all of our team.
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  Speaker 2: We're really rolling along here. We've had for the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of years what we call our flightless Honor Flight,
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  Speaker 2: which is the veterans that are not capable of going
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  Speaker 2: on an eighteen hour day between the bus and the airplanes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being away from home, so any kind of
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  Speaker 2: physical limitation or maybe they're afraid to fly. That's simple.
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  Speaker 2: We have our Flightless honor flight and it's may A
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  Speaker 2: or marj at the Innerson Community Center, which they have
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  Speaker 2: been so generous to let us use that day. But
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  Speaker 2: it'll be everything like we can put together for a flight,
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  Speaker 2: well Bagpiper's and the opening national anthem sung live by
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  Speaker 2: a local high school student. That's fabulous. We have a
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  Speaker 2: movie that we produce, there's a photo booth. Well, we
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  Speaker 2: have snacks even brought to the Veteransplice flight attendance. We
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  Speaker 2: have a coin ceremony and a flag ceremony, a group shot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a group photo shot, and just everything we
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  Speaker 2: can squeeze into a two and a half hour that
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  Speaker 2: makes it seem like they're really on the flight. And
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  Speaker 2: then of course the welcome home rally, which is our
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing all the time on our regular flights. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a really nice one playing for them right after
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  Speaker 2: the all of this goes on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm so glad to hear that because you know,
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  Speaker 1: in many ways, I'm not going to say that's the
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  Speaker 1: highlight of it, but after such a long day, and
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  Speaker 1: it is a long day, especially for those senior veterans,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're getting all around DC the travel back
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  Speaker 1: and forth. You know, you're pretty exhausted by the time
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  Speaker 1: you get off the airplane, but man, you just come
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  Speaker 1: a lie with a burst of energy and adrenaline and yes,
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  Speaker 1: the emotional outbreak you're gonna definitely have when you see
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  Speaker 1: one of these these welcome home ceremonies, but that you're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to recreate that for this Flightless Honor flight.
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  Speaker 1: I sure hope it's it's even close to what you
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  Speaker 1: see at CVG because it's such a great moment in time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have some high school students coming over and
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  Speaker 2: just so many you know, this little choir coming and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have music. And you know how when your
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  Speaker 2: little kids and your mom says you got a second wind,
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  Speaker 2: Well they'll get a second win when they see this.
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  Speaker 2: And it's it's all planned out by our Flightless staff
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  Speaker 2: and they've been working on this for weeks, down to
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  Speaker 2: every list of detail. So we even have boarding passes
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  Speaker 2: for the guys, everything that will make them feel like
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  Speaker 2: they're on a flight, but they're not leaving Cincinnati. They're
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  Speaker 2: being dropped off maybe by their retirement home or by
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  Speaker 2: a family member. And then we have so much room
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  Speaker 2: there at the Anderson Center that we can really accommodate
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people, so it should be fabulous for
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  Speaker 2: the veterans.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a limit to the number that are spots available?
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  Speaker 1: Clearly on an airplane there's a cutoff. But how about
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  Speaker 1: the flightless inner flight?
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  Speaker 2: Well there is, but I didn't tell you that. We
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  Speaker 2: have plenty of room and we also have spots available,
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  Speaker 2: so the only thing you have to do is not
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  Speaker 2: just show up. We'd like to know how many, right,
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  Speaker 2: So if you go onto our website to the very
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  Speaker 2: front page of our website on a flight tri state
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  Speaker 2: dot org and there's a flightless application there. So if
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  Speaker 2: you would just fill that out quickly and send it
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  Speaker 2: over to Kirol clack and Bush, who's our chairman, she'll
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  Speaker 2: get everything set up for your name tag, your T shirt,
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  Speaker 2: everything you'll need. So we just need to know how
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  Speaker 2: many are coming. But we really do have space left.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wonderful. I'm glad to hear it. But it's
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  Speaker 1: open to I see some eligibility information here veterans aged
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  Speaker 1: sixty five and older, and of course, Honor Flight is
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  Speaker 1: committed to going with the traditional flights. The oldest people
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  Speaker 1: get to go first, for obvious reasons, but sixty five
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  Speaker 1: and older those who served stateside or overseas during wartime
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  Speaker 1: or peacetime, that will be everybody veterans unable to participate
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  Speaker 1: in the traditional honor flight due to medical or logistical reasons.
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  Speaker 1: So there's your cutoffs right there. It seems like it's
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  Speaker 1: a well if there's no number cut off, then there's
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  Speaker 1: your eligible to requires click out, click on the download
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  Speaker 1: application form.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty much wide open. We have so many
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  Speaker 2: veterans that have so much difficulty going on these flights.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we always say you go up and down
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  Speaker 2: steps six steps fourteen times. That's pretty overwhelming. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're in any kind of condition where you can't do
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  Speaker 2: anything like that, come on out and enjoy your day.
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  Speaker 2: We've got everything planned for you and it'll be a
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  Speaker 2: really nice substitution for a great big flight. And flightless
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  Speaker 2: is a term that we've been using for gosh about
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  Speaker 2: eight years, and it's they do appreciate it, and especially
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  Speaker 2: to family members who know that they're not able to
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  Speaker 2: go on this long flight. So flightless Honor Flight March
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  Speaker 2: eighth at the Anderson Community Center.
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  Speaker 1: Help us celebrate you sign up March eighth.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, and if you want to come out for
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  Speaker 2: the welcome home, it'll be on the lower level. There's
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  Speaker 2: parking in the building right behind the center and it'll
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  Speaker 2: be starting about three fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic, Well, we can all help out with you a
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  Speaker 1: welcome home ceremonies. Chryl Pop got