Encyclopedia Dubuque
"Encyclopedia Dubuque is the online authority for all things Dubuque, written by the people who know the city best.”
Marshall Cohen—researcher and producer, CNN
Affiliated with the Local History Network of the State Historical Society of Iowa, and the Iowa Museum Association.
HONOR FLIGHT DUBUQUE
HONOR FLIGHT DUBUQUE. Honor Flight Network is a non-profit organization created solely to honor America's veterans for all their sacrifices. Veterans were flown to Washington, D.C. at no expense to them to visit and reflect at their memorials. Top priority was given to the senior veterans – WORLD WAR II survivors, along with those other veterans who might be terminally ill. Between the time the network was established in 2005 and May, 2010 an estimated 40,000 veterans were brought to Washington, D.C. from across the United States.
Although Dubuque was not the first city in Iowa to have an Honor Flight, on May 18, 2010 ninety-five veterans and sixty-seven sponsors completed the inaugural Honor Flight from Dubuque. Arriving at the airport around 5:00 a.m., they flew to the nation's capital and returned to the DUBUQUE REGIONAL AIRPORT at 10:45 p.m. to a reception of friends and well-wishers.