From WNC to DC: Jeff Miller and the Blue Ridge Honor Flight
The Blue Ridge Honor Flight didn’t start as a national movement. It began as a local effort to do something simple, and honestly, long overdue. The mission: Give Veterans the opportunity to visit the memorials built in their honor.
Jeff Miller, a former Hendersonville dry cleaner, was at the center of that effort two decades ago, and he helped launch what started in Western North Carolina and quickly grew into something much, much bigger. Today, Honor Flight chapters across the country continue the mission, but the roots can be traced back to an idea that took hold right here in Henderson County, NC.
This interview explores how it all started, what it took to build it, and why these flights mean so much to the veterans who take them … and to the communities that send them off.
Recorded in Hendersonville, NC — where stories grow wild.
