News Release: September 1st, 2011

Honor Flight South Dakota concludes operation.

Several activities will be held across the state on Monday September 12th to mark the conclusion of the Honor Flight South Dakota project.

Events will include several Community Open houses and receptions to honor Veterans and at 7:00pm Central time, KELO-Land Television will broadcast a one hour special program about the Honor Flights from South Dakota.  In conjunction with the program, there will be several Open House events around the state.

All WWII veterans, including Honor Flight participants, and friends and family are invited to attend an Open House event in your area to watch the KELO program or we hope you’ll enjoy the program from home.

Open House events will be held September 12th in Sioux Falls at the Sanford Research Center on North 60th Street at the Benson Road exit of I-229 starting at 5:30pm. And in Rapid City at the T.R.E.A  Veterans Building at 1981 East Center Street starting at 5:00pm.

Also, several Veterans Organization Clubs around the state are planning open houses so we encourage you to check with your local American Legion or VFW Club.
The broadcast and Open house events will be the closing activity of the program. Over the last 4 years, volunteers organized a state-wide Honor Flight South Dakota “Hub” in conjunction with the national Honor Flight Network; formed an all-volunteer non-profit tax-exempt organization to manage the program; received major support from hundreds of volunteers and every Veterans Service organization across the state and charter sponsors Sanford Health, First Premier, and KELO-Land;  and coordinated a dozen “Honor Flights” to Washington DC so nearly 1,400 area WWII Veterans could visit the recently completed WWII National Memorial created in honor of their service.

For more information, email to: HonorFlightSD@gmail.com or call 1-888-344-1945

Honor Flight SD
PO Box 947
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
1-888-344-1945
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