How To Treat The Wounded

The Capitol Hilton really should take a hard look at their practices in light of this article.

United Airlines will donate more than 123 million frequent flyer miles to the Hero Miles program, which supplies free flights to wounded service members and their families.

Nearly 90 percent of the donation comes from United customers who turned over their accumulated frequent flyer bonuses to the military charity. Altogether, the donation will mean nearly 5,000 more free flights for the program’s participants.

Now, 90% came from customer donations, but United administered the whole thing and did donate miles as well.

Currently the Hero Miles program, run by the Fisher House Foundation, offers flights on 10 major airlines. To date the program has supplied more than 5,000 round-trip tickets to wounded troops and their families, worth more than $6.5 million.

The program is open to troops injured in combat operations overseas and their families.

There are a lot of good people in this country.