Southeast Florida Honor Flight

08/21/2026

What a great kickoff night last night at Double Roads Tavern! The festivities resume tomorrow. Come out and listen to some great music and look at some amazing Military Vehicles and say Hi to some incredible veterans and have a great time.

08/04/2026

We had another amazing meeting yesterday. Employees from Aero Engine Solutions presented a check of $20,000 from their company foundation AeroSpace Salutes. We also had a former guardian Michelle Popke present a check on behalf of her husband and the foundation that she created for him. The Kevin Popke foundation held a fundraiser on our behalf and presented a check for $10,000. Thank you so much to these amazing people and these amazing companies that continue to support SEFLHF.
We also had 3 WWII veterans in attendance at the meeting last night and they had to show off their bright patriotic shoes to everyone online 😎
The Hoka Hey motorcycle challenge that our community member Darryl Mauney is underway. They started from Woodstock, Illinois on Sunday. You can track his ride here

https://site.usft.com/view/MApjNT8WNdknGrpyRn4a0kXFPVgkFv6z68K-I7rw97GfopPQ

You can donate to his ride here. All proceeds are going to be donated to SEFLHF

https://honorflightsefl.org/hoka-hey/

There is a date change for the Double Roads weekend celebration in Jupiter. It is now August 20-23

The next meeting is Monday, September 14.
The next flight ✈️ is Saturday, September 19.

Monthly breakfasts are North location at City Diner in Stuart the last Monday of the month at 10:00 am and the South breakfast at The Irishman Pub in Boca Raton at 8:30

07/28/2026

We had a wonderful breakfast at the North location with Jimmy at City Diner in Stuart. One of our guardians Angel Robertson brought all of us flags to show off our patriotism and one of those flags was a winner of a gift card provided by Angel. That was a nice gift, fun game and finished extra special! Thank you Angel!
After that we took a moment to reflect on the fact that we were missing our friend Alfred (Al) Haworth who passed on July 13. Mr. Haworth flew to DC with Dr. Singh and was a decorated WWII veteran who will be deeply missed.

The South breakfast will be Friday, July 31 at 8:30am in Boca Raton at the Irishman pub.

And boom 💥 just like that it’s August already!! Where did July go?
The August monthly meeting is Monday, August 3rd at 6:30pm at the Martin County Fire Rescue Admin Building.

Have a great rest of your July😎.

07/16/2026

We’ve said it before and hopefully keep saying it, we have some truly amazing community members that love our veterans and want to do whatever it takes to help them. Darryl Mauney is a local motorcycle rider that is riding in this years Hoka Hey motorcycle challenge. Darryl came to our meeting this month to tell us about the challenge and what it consists of. The ride will start and end in Illinois (so he first has to travel from Stuart to Illinois) and will travel a total of 11,000 miles all on his motorcycle! He will be with a group that will travel rain or shine, they will sleep on benches or the ground unless someplace lets them in overnight. He mentioned that on the last challenge there were a couple of places, one being a church, that let them sleep inside for the night. The group only uses paper maps; no gps turn by turn guidance devices. All of the riders in the Hoka Hey challenge use it as a fundraising opportunity. Darryl has chosen SEFLHF as his charity of choice!!!! You can click the link below to support Darryl in his journey

https://honorflightsefl.org/hoka-hey/

Oh ya, did I mention that he is doing all of this within a 2 week timeframe, then a ride from Illinois back to Stuart!

07/08/2026

At the monthly meeting on Monday July 6, American Legion Post 62 showed up big. Three of the Legion family group (Auxiliary President Gail Crosby and Treasurer Vivian Currell, Sons member Eric Shabotynskyj and Legionairres) presented check donations to total $9,000! Many of our SEFLHF volunteers are also members of Post 62 so we took a group photo of everyone that are members of both organizations that were at the meeting.

The Mets baseball game on July 3 was a huge success! There were some veterans that signed up for flights and fun was had by all. We had 6 WWII veterans join us on the field, one of those veterans, Mr. Rossi, threw out the first pitch to get the game started. There are autographed Jerseys up for auction still. The auction ends at 8pm this evening.
Stluciemets.com/auction

Mark your calendars for these upcoming events:
August 14-16 at Double Roads Tavern in Jupiter there will be a SEFLHF fundraiser. Officers & Gentlemen band will be playing
November 7 there will be a Brewfest Fundraiser in Stuart (more info to come later)
November 13 there will be a quarter auction held in Port St. Lucie (more info to come later)
November 14 is the 15th annual Chili cookoff in Tequesta. It is being held in a new location this year at Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park, Jupiter 2-6pm. SEFLHF has been chosen to be one of 5 veteran organizations to receive a donation of the proceeds. 100% of the proceeds will be divided up between these 5 charities.

07/07/2026

There is still time to put bids on the jerseys that were worn at the Mets Game on the Third. Bidding closes on July 8, at 8pm.
The jerseys are autographed by the player that wore it that night (they are cleaned very well before you receive them 😎)

MiLB Auctions

07/06/2026

I just realized I never posted the pics of the North Stuart breakfast last Monday at City Diner. As always Jimmy and his staff were on point even with the internet outage.
The North Breakfast is the last Monday of every month and the South breakfast is the last Friday of every month.
Join us this evening for the July monthly meeting at 6:30 at the Martin County Fire Rescue Admin Building.

07/05/2026

JULY 5, TODAY, LAST DAY TO ENTER

07/04/2026

On this day 250 years ago, July 4, 1776, we became
“One Nation Under God”. Let us take this day to reflect on the fact that we are free to roam about this beautiful nation only because we have selfless men and women that gave up so much of their freedoms to defend ours. We owe our veterans EVERYTHING! We wish everyone a safe, fun & happy Independence Day!