10/03/2026
This weekend, more than 5,000 Western New York veterans will have made the trip to Washington, D.C., with Honor Flight Rochester to see the memorials built in their honor.
Mission 98 takes place this weekend, Oct. 3rd to 4th. When the veterans arrive to Rochester Airport on Sunday, 5,077 veterans will have made the trip to Washington, D.C. It's all been free to the veterans and it started with the first trip in 2008.
This mission also includes something new. For the first time, Honor Flight Rochester is sending a bus for veterans who can't fly for medical or other reasons. Twenty-one Livingston County veterans and their guardians will make the trip by road. A grant from the NYS Dwyer Program covers the cost, in partnership with Livingston County and the Livingston County Veterans' Office.
In all, 80 veterans will go to Washington this weekend: 52 who served in Vietnam, two from Korea, and others from the Cold War and post-1975 eras. They represent every branch.
Who is on this historic mission’s crew? Well, our founder, Peter Glennon, who also co-founded Honor Flight Rochester and serves as its Board Chairman. He's an Air Force veteran with 24 years of service. The Glennon Law Firm is proud to be veteran-owned and proud to support HFR's missions.