Soaring Valor Honors Veterans With Final Flight

Program helped over 1,500 visit the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

Zach Vasile

Wednesday, October 01, 2025 at 02:47 PM ET

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Travis Tingle

Veterans are led to the gate at Phoenix for one of the final Soaring Valor journeys. [Courtesy: American Airlines]

Key Takeaways:

The "Soaring Valor" program, a partnership between American Airlines, the Gary Sinise Foundation, and the National WWII Museum, completed its final charter flight in September after a decade.
Since 2015, the program orchestrated over 30 all-expenses-paid trips, allowing more than 1,500 World War II veterans to visit the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
The program is concluding due to the declining number of surviving veterans able to travel or who have already participated.
While charter flights end, the Gary Sinise Foundation will continue to facilitate individual trips for WWII veterans and their guardians to the museum.

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A yearslong partnership that sought to honor World War II veterans by bringing them to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans operated its final charter flight in September.

The program, known as Soaring Valor, flew a group of veterans from Charlotte, North Carolina, to New Orleans on September 5. It was the last of over 30 all-expenses-paid trips that helped more than 1,500 veterans visit the museum—designated by Congress as the nation’s official World War II military history institution—since 2015.