OLean Times Herald
Savannah Barr
Buffalo-Niagara Honor Flight is looking for sponsors for its first all-female mission.
In October, 40 women veterans and their female caretakers from Western New York and Bradford will land in Washington, D.C. for a two-day trip. The group will lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery and receive special recognition at the Military Women’s Memorial. They will also visit other memorials and monuments that have been put in place in honor of women veterans.
“We try to do activities that show our respect for them,” said Donna Quigley, treasurer of Buffalo-Niagara Honor Flight. “Sometimes we have groups of school children who come out to meet us and shake their hands, things like that.”
Buffalo-Niagara Honor Flight hosts three trips a year. Usually, their flights are open to both male and female veterans. But for this trip the organization decided to do something different.
