05/18/2026
Tomorrow, I have the incredible honor of serving as a guardian on the 80th mission of Missions of Honor’s Old Glory Honor Flight — accompanying two Vietnam veterans to Washington D.C. for a day dedicated entirely to honoring their service and sacrifice 🇺🇸❤️
This mission means so much to our family!! Over the past few years, Ella has spent her summers running lemonade stands to help raise money for this amazing organization… and thanks to so many kind people, she’s raised nearly $2,000 to help send veterans on these flights! To watch her learn what gratitude, service, and patriotism truly mean has been something really special 🥹💖
This flight is also deeply personal for me…
I’ll be walking onto that plane tomorrow in remembrance of my Grandpa Irv- a proud Marine veteran who never got the opportunity to experience an Old Glory Honor Flight himself. I know he’ll be with me in all the little moments tomorrow… in every handshake, every story shared, every memorial visited, and every tear shed. Being able to honor other veterans in his memory is something I can’t even fully put into words! I’ll certainly be spamming your feed with updates!
Tomorrow night, these veterans come home!
And if you’ve ever been to an Old Glory Honor Flight homecoming… you know it’s hard to explain the emotion behind it. The flags. The cheers. The tears. The hugs from complete strangers. The welcome home so many Vietnam veterans never received the first time around.
So I’m asking our community to show up BIG!! 🙌🏼
Let’s line the halls at Appleton International Airport tomorrow night and remind these heroes that their service mattered… and still matters!! Let’s give them the love, gratitude, and welcome home they deserved all those years ago!
✈️ Plane lands around 9:15 PM at ATW
🇺🇸 Bring flags, bring kids, bring your applause
❤️ Help us make sure every veteran walking through those doors feels seen, honored, and deeply appreciated
For so many veterans, this isn’t just a flight. It’s healing. It’s closure. It’s finally hearing the words they should have heard decades ago…it’s never too late to say…
“Welcome home. And thank you.” 🇺🇸