Ma hope o ke kūkulu ʻia ʻana o ka hoʻomanaʻo hoʻomanaʻo o ke Kaua Honua II ma ka hale kūʻai aupuni o Wakinekona DC i ʻehā mau makahiki i hala aku nei, he mau kaukani ka nui e ʻākoakoa nei i ka pūnaewele i kēlā me kēia lā e ola nei nā lawelawe lawelawe.
Hāʻawi nā Volunteer-limahana limahana a me nā kālā hāʻawi manawaleʻa i ka huakaʻi manuahi a me ke kahu no ka poʻe koa o ke Kaua Honua II e kipa aku i ka kia hoʻomanaʻo e hoʻomanaʻo ana i kā lākou lawelawe.
"I 10 mau makahiki ma ke ʻano he pailaka ExpressJet, ʻo ka lele ʻana i ka Flight Flight ka lā maikaʻi loa o kaʻu ʻoihana. Ma ke ʻano he koa pūʻali koa lewa, ua haʻaheo wau i ka ʻāpana o kekahi lā e hoʻohanohano ai i ka poʻe nāna i hāʻawi nui, "i ʻōlelo ʻia ʻo ExpressJet's Honor Flight pailaka ʻo Jeff Rupp.
E lele ka charter service ʻo ExpressJet Airlines i ka Flight Hoʻohanohano ʻelua ʻo Flight Flight ʻo Northwestern Ohio i ka hopena o Iune, ma hope o ka lele ʻana o 29 mau koa kūpuna mai Toledo i ka lā 30 ʻApelila no ka lele mua.
ʻO Dee Pakulski, nona ka makuakāne he koa ʻo WWII, i hoʻokumu i ka hub Northwestern Ohio o kēia papahana ma hope o ka lawelawe ʻana ma ke ʻano he kahu Kiaʻi Hoʻohanohano no ka mea hōʻeha maʻi ʻo World War II ma o ka hub Michigan o ka papahana.
"I kēlā me kēia lā, nalowale mākou i kā mākou hanauna nui o ʻAmelika," wahi a Pakulski. "Ua hoʻi mai ka hapa nui o kēia mau koa ʻAmelika mai ka lawelawe ʻana ma hope o ka lanakila me ka ʻike ʻole ʻia. Lohe ka hapa nui o lākou i nā ʻōlelo mahalo a mahalo no ka manawa mua ke kipa lākou i ka Memorial. ”
Wahi a ka pūnaewele lele hoʻohanohano, i kēlā me kēia lā, make nā koa kahiko o 1200 World War II. Ma o kā TLC papahana a i ʻole ʻo "ko lākou hope hope loa" i hāʻawi ʻia ai ka makana mua i nā poʻe koa maʻi maʻi.
"ʻO ka palekana kā mākou mea nui kiʻekiʻe," wahi a Pakulski. "Aia kēia poʻe koa i kā lākou '80s a me' 90s a koi i nā noho huila, oxygen, a pono lākou i nā wahi huakaʻi kūikawā."
Hāʻawi ka lawelawe chartered a ExpressJet i ka palupalu, e ʻae ana i ka hui e hāʻawi i ka poʻe kūpuna i kahi lā poina ʻole e ʻike ai i ke kapikala o ka lāhui a lākou i hakakā ai e pale.
Uku kēlā me kēia hub Flight Flight no ka huakaʻi o ka poʻe kūpuna ma o ka ʻohi kālā ʻana a ka hui a me nā hana kākoʻo.
Mai ka hoʻomaka ʻana i ka 2005, ua hoʻonui ʻia ka pūnaewele lele i 30 mau mokuʻāina. Hāpai kahi kumu kūloko o nā mea manawaleʻa i nā kālā a hoʻolālā i nā huakaʻi no nā koa kahiko o kēlā me kēia hub Honor Flight. Pālua ʻia kēlā me kēia koa me kahi kahu kōkua manawaleʻa. ʻOiai he manuahi nā huakaʻi no ka poʻe kūpuna, uku nā kahu no kā lākou huakaʻi ponoʻī.
I ka ulu ʻana o ka ʻike no ka papahana, ua ʻike nā hub he nui i nā papa inoa kali o nā kūpuna i ulu i nā haneli.
"Hele mākou e hiamoe i kēlā me kēia pō me ka ʻike ʻoiai mākou e ʻohi kālā ana a me ka hoʻolālā ʻana no ka Flight Hoʻohanohano e hiki mai ana, ʻaʻole paha kekahi o ka poʻe koa i ka lā ʻapōpō. Makemake loa mākou e hoʻolako i nā huakaʻi he nui i nā kūpuna i hiki iā mākou, ”hoʻomau ʻo Pukulski.
Kūkākūkā ʻo ia i nā mea makemake e kōkua e hāʻawi kālā i ko lākou wahi kūloko, lawelawe ma ke ʻano he mea kōkua manawaleʻa a kahu paha, a i ʻole hoʻonohonoho i kahi hub Flight Honor kūloko i ko lākou wahi, e hoʻopili aku i ka hui lele hoʻohanohano aupuni ma www.honorflight.org.
