alone. luke s wings, provide flights for family to visit sick servicemembers. they re on a mission to make that happen. fletcher guild cofounder of luke s wings. thank you. ed: why did you start the charity. thanks for having me. sorry my voice is hoarse. i think i caught a swamp bug. i apologize. in 2018, sarah wingfield met a service member luke shirley recovering at walter reed. he was recovering from loss of arm and leg. the part resonating his mother was they re as non-medical attendant caring for him on day-to-day basis. that is crazy. let s go over to walter reed, let s offer some flight to get those moms home. you know, i think it is amazing they re there. ed: get them back and forth. the mom might live in ohio.
without anybody? a lot of our servicemembers, our heroes, that will happen for them. this is a dark time of year. you look outside. the days are shorter. nights are longer. it gets dark inside too. we want to make sure every hero and service member is home for the holidays. we provide flights for veterans in hospice care and special operators and even police officers. we provided three flights for detective seals. bernie care rec helped us do that we couldn t have done it without them. is a great guy. if you know a service member might be home alone, call the office. call the office today. help us coordinate. ed: we talked on the show about the scourge of veteran suicides in particular. you re also helping with that piece which is important. they can reach you where? luke s wings.org. we have a specific website, download the christmas card. we ll send you a christmas ornament. ed: i take this with pride.
who serve us so well. so that s why i do it. but to give you a little background about luke s wings, luke s wings is named after two people, luke shirley and sayre why winningfield and luke shirley was a wounded warrior we met in 2007 at walter reed army medical center, sarah was a cheer leader, ambassador, who met him and about six months later told me the story of how he was recovering from his battle injuries having lost an arm and leg in battle, and i just kind it kind of struck with chord with minister and a light bulb went off and these folks, these service members, these wounded warriors need to their families with them while recovering so very simply we started a nonprofit, a tax deductible 501c3 nonprofit in january 2008 and started flying families into military hospitals so fast forward, four years, 2012, this year alone, we ve spent
roadway he doesn t want them to be on the roadway because we re still experiencing the heavy gust was wind, and this was a drought-stricken area and the trees are soaked with water and are very, very heavy. however we do know it s memorial day weekend, people need to get home today, so there are a number of travelers who say 24e are they still trying to head out, the airport is open right now and two bridges are still closed but the majorities of roadways are closed. here s two travelers we spoke with. take a listen: start seeing the clouds roll in on sunday morning and spent time that we could out there on the beach, had a great time, then all of the sudden the winds started picking up and the rain started and i could hear it really, really hit about 2:00 this morning, i could hear the winds howling. we were driving. it was pretty wicked. pretty it was we were ready to get back home here. reporter: that was a mother and daughter from syracuse. this is their fir
12:00 and 2:00 a.m. on that the beach, where we were feeling winds of 75 miles per hour. that is just short of a hurricane. we ve already had about an inch of rain, rainfall will continue throughout the day today into tuesday and tuesday and maybe parts of wednesday because the system is so huge. that being said, you can see if you saw some of the pictures yesterday, the surf is not necessarily as intense, we were seeing 8-# two, and it was up about 20 yards more than it is right now. take a look at the damage around town. we saw a lot of downed tree branches, a lot of the debris in the roadways, the roadways are very slick, and the mayor just held a press conference saying if people do not have to be on the roadway he doesn t want them to be on the roadway because we re still experiencing the heavy gust was wind, and this was a drought-stricken area and the trees are soaked with water and are very, very heavy. however we do know it s memorial day weekend, people need to