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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — While Memorial Day is the unofficial start of the summer travel season, it's also a time to remember the nation's fallen heroes.
Through the Fisher House Foundation's Hero Miles program, travelers can donate their miles to military and veteran's families receiving treatment that would provide round-trip airline tickets to injured or ill service members and their families. Fisher House says that in the last 10 years, more than 58,000 tickets have been given to wounded, injured and ill service members and their families, worth nearly $88 million.
Sometimes Hero Miles can also be used to help family members travel to Fisher House in Dover, Delaware, which provides a home away from home for families traveling to Dover to be there for the arrival of fallen military members.
Fisher House Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides a network of comfort homes around the country where military and veteran's families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment for an illness, disease or injury.
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