Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) dedicated two new displays at DFW’s Founders Plaza airport observation area that honor 500 corporate, business and community organizations and thousands of volunteers who took part in the Welcome Home a Hero program from 2004 to 2012.
The exhibits include a commemorative center that details accomplishments of the volunteer greeter program and an interactive fountain that re-creates the airport’s “shower of affection” water cannon salutes over incoming aircraft.
The program, during its eight years, greeted more than 920,000 soldiers as they arrived from or departed for their deployments. More than 10,000 local volunteers and more than 500 corporate and business groups took part in the program.
“The Welcome Home A Hero volunteers made it their collective mission to extend a warm welcome to our military troops coming home through DFW Airport,” said Sean Donohue, CEO of DFW Airport. “It wasn’t the airport, and it wasn’t any particular organization or any single person that made this work so well. It was the spirit and commitment of the community, corporations and businesses, and the selflessness and giving of individuals that led to the success of this program.”
