  
Greetings from your Chief Passionate Volunteer and Executive Director! It’s amazing to think we are gearing up for our 5th mission. I get so excited to see the veterans being added to each mission and feel connected to each family as well. We are grateful for the service and sacrifice of our honored veterans. We cannot thank enough our sponsors (monetary and in-kind) as well as our countless volunteers that make these missions possible. THANK YOU ALL! Make sure to check out our website for a listing of 2023 sponsors and if you know of one that might be missing, let us know. We are all volunteers, so things do get missed.
As we prepare for our September 27th flight, we also look back and are saddened by the veterans we have lost since May 3rd. This includes past board member Ed Cobbler (Vietnam), D-Day veteran Vince Corsini (WWII) but several others. We do go by age for our flights, but if there is a terminally ill veteran, we will do our best to accommodate them on the trip.
Blessings and see you soon!
Alison Huber
For the September 27th flight, Veterans will be notified in the next few months, as we work our way down the waiting list. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH US AS WE TRY TO HONOR OUR ELDEST VETERANS FIRST.
Carolinas Credit Union Foundation presented Triad Honor Flight with a $2,700 donation from our raffle ticket sales and a $2,500 match by the foundation.
The combined total of $5,200 will help sponsor seats for 8 veterans on upcoming flights.
Thank you Winston Salem Flights
On June 2 game-worn Winston-Salem Flights jerseys were auctioned off. This auction, was presented by Truist, and all proceeds from the jersey auction will benefited Triad Honor Flight.
 
Bigbikes4vets.com 8th Annual Purple Heart Ride was a great success with 150+ riders. THANK YOU WINSTON-SALEM MOTOR OFFICERS, DAVIDSON COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS for making it an awesome police escorted safe ride. LOOK at the completely blocked highways. Our police officers were AWESOME!!! Great funds raised for our 501C3 to help our local veterans. The 2023 "Elaine Dills Service Award" was presented to Bruce Rutherford one of THF supporters. Ann Hartley and Michelle Garr volunteered to man a THF booth at Smokin Harley Davidson after the ride. "Our" THF Bagpiper played Amazing Grace before the ride and Shannon Allen sang the National Anthem.
 
Local Socials
We continue to incredibly thankful for the support of our community! Lowes Foods on New Garden Road In Greensboro will be donating 10% of its sale to Triad Honor Flight on Monday July 3rd from 4pm to 7pm. Get your 4th of July shopping done to support our nations hero's! Please note coupons can not be handed out at the store, however you can present these digital coupons at check out! Coupons can not be used at self check out. Please share and do shopping this day!
These are the future dates for the Lowes Local Socials, all in North West Greensboro from 4-7pm on the dates below. If you are interested in volunteering for any of these dates please contact Shelby Kline Directly, 336-707-6285 or skline@htanc.com
August 7 Walkertown
September 11 Jamestown
October 2 Church Street
November 6 Old Oak Ridge Road
Huge Thank you to Volunteer Wooten Taylor for helping in June at Lowes Foods in Oak Ridge.
Special Performance of “Star Spangled Girls” to Raise Money for Our Local Veterans
We are sponsoring a Veterans Day fundraiser for our local veterans by hosting “Star Spangled Girls” performed by the Touring Theater of North Carolina. Tickets are free but donations will be accepted at the door and after the performance. All proceeds will be given to the Randolph County Veterans Services to be used for local veterans in need. Please join us for this special evening honoring our veterans.
When: Saturday, July 15, 2023 at 7:00 pm
Where: Sunset Theater, Asheboro, NC
What: Help us raise money for our local veterans who are in need. 100% of all proceeds will be given to Randolph County Veterans Services for the purpose of assisting the people who have served our Country.
Admission: We are asking for donations in lieu of an admission charge.
Information: Please contact Rita Honeycutt if you have any question or need information about sponsorship or advertising. Her contact is 336.318.6909.
More About Star Spangled Girls
Commissioned in 2005 by UNC Greensboro’s Women Veterans Historical Collection, and performed by the Touring Theater of NC, Star-Spangled Girls is a review built from diaries, letters, interviews, telegrams, journals, and posters by and about the women who served the United States during WWII. Directed, adapted and compiled by Founding, Artistic, Producing Director Brenda Schleunes, five actresses portray WAC’s, WAVE’s, Army Nurses, and Red Cross volunteers. The characters based on real women veterans share their memories about enlistment, basic training, service at home and abroad, love, and segregation. Songs from war time are woven throughout the production.
“Five women capably jump in and out of characters as they tell their stories of love and loss, patriotism and discrimination, wild adventure and numbing routine. Their tales are interspersed with song snippets of the era (“Over There” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”).The actors fall in and out of accents – or even male characters – as the differing stories unfold revealing the strength, curiosity and gusto with which they became pioneers in the women’s movement.”
Leslie Mizell – Greensboro News & Record
We are in need of 2 volunteers to assist with handing our event for this event at the Triad Honor Flight table.
Please contact Alison at alison.huber@dynamicquest.com
In The News!
Here are some recent news clips about the Traid Honor Flight!
Fox 8: 100 Year Old Veteran WWII Veteran
WXII 12: Nearly 100 Veterans Fly to DC May 3, 2023
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
You can donate directly to Triad Honor Flight via the website or via VENMO @TriadHonorFlight
All of our Veterans fly for free, cost to fly one Veteran is $600.
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RESOURCES & EVENTS VETERANS IN THE TRIAD AREA!
We often get information from various sources in the area for events and programs that can be useful for Veterans and their families. We hope we can help spread the word by simply getting the information out to other. Questions for these events should be directed to contact info listed on the flyer.
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