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PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, Collier County Honor Flight was founded in 2013 as a local hub of the national
Honor Flight Network; and
WHEREAS, it is the mission of the non-profit Collier County Honor Flight to honor
America's veterans by transporting our heroes, free of charge, to Washington,
0.C., to visit the memorials dedicated in their honor; and
WHEREAS, this gift to our veterans from our citizens is also a gift to our community as
young and old band together to celebrate and give thanks to our local heroes
of the Greatest Generation and the spirit that makes America great; and
WHEREAS, of all the wars in recent memory, it was World War II that threatened our
very existence as a nation and as a culturally diverse, free society; and
WHEREAS, Honor Flight's top priority is given to our senior veterans, the terminally ill and
Especially World War II veterans who, according to the Department of
Veterans Affairs, we are losing at the rate of 640 day; and
WHEREAS, time is of the essence to honor these brave men and women; and
WHEREAS, on Saturday, April 26, 2014, Collier County Honor Flight will take flight for
the second time, honoring 50 of our local World War II heroes with an
experience of a lifetime as a thank you from the grateful citizens of Collier
County and the United States of America.
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier
County, Florida, that April 2014 be designated as
COLLIER COUNTY HONOR FLIGHT MONTH
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 8th Day of April, 2014
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER CO NT)), , LORIDA
THOMAS HENNING,; AIRMAN