With a flurry of flags crossing the thoroughfare, it wasn’t a typical Sunday morning at Portland International Airport. Milling through the crowds were hundreds of flag-bearing veterans, waiting to greet their brothers and sisters returning from Washington, D.C. on an Honors Flight for WWII vets. The group—average age 92—had departed Portland the previous Thursday for […]
Bend Heroes Foundation
Bend City Council Proclaims Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Bend City Council issued the following proclamation during tonight’s meeting, recognizing Dec. 7 as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. The proclamation was initiated by the Bend Heroes Foundation. Proclamation DECEMBER 7TH, 2014 as PEARL HARBOR REMEMBRANCE DAY WHEREAS, December 7th, 2014 marks the seventy-third anniversary of the premeditated attack on Pearl Harbor propelling our nation into WWII, […]

