Florida lawyers involved in Honor Flights
THE HONOR FLIGHT SOUTH FLORIDA CHAPTER recently carried 65 World War II and Korean War veterans from Miami to Washington. Florida lawyer Rick Woolf, a Navy veteran of Vietnam, is a board member of HFSF, a nonprofit created to honor America’s WW II and Korean veterans. Since 2005, Honor Flight has flown more than 120,000 veterans to Washington, at no cost to them, from its 127 “hubs” around the country. Each vet is assigned to a younger person to assist on the trip. Woolf served as a “guardian” for Bernie Dudas, 88, who was only 17 years old when he enlisted in the Navy and served as a gunnery and crane operator in the Pacific. On another flight, Woolf accompanied Irv Block, 91, who enlisted during World War II in the U.S. Army Air Corps at the age of 18. Since the flights, Woolf has continued to spend time with Dudas and Block, as well as Korean War vet Jim Feldman, 88, whom he also accompanied on an Honor Flight. The Florida Bar is well represented on Honor Flight South Florida, as Chair Richard Asper and Vice Chair Marc Adler, along with Woolf, make up one third of the nine-member board.
