Veterans Breakfast Club Plans Trip to Flight 93 Memorial and Chapel

The Veterans Breakfast Club is planning an April 19 trip to the Flight 93 Memorial and Chapel in Shanksville.

The $89 cost of the trip will include motorcoach transportation, continental breakfast and a buffet lunch at the Oakhurst Tea Room in Somerset County. 

The public is invited to join veterans of all ages, their familes and friends for the event, which will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For information about the Flight 93 Memorial trip or to reserve a seat, contact Chris Crompton at 412-881-4100 or Todd DePastino at 412-623-9029 or todd@veteransbreakfastclub.com.

Pickup locations are as follows:     

9 a.m. at Mt. Nebo Road Park 'n Ride (Exit 68 off Interstate 79),

9 a.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 164 Fort Couch Road (across from South Hills Village),

9:30 a.m. at the Comfort Inn, 699 Rodi Road, Penn Hills.  

The Veterans Breakfast Club is a nonprofit organization that creates communities of listening around veterans and their stories.

Its North Hills meetings are held at in the Oxford Athletic Club at 100 Village Club Drive in Wexford. The next meeting is at 8:30 a.m. April 4.

The group also meets in Moon Township, Penn Hills and South Hills. For meeting times and dates, click here.

"Veterans’ stories–whether they be entertaining, instructive, commemorative or healing–remind us that history is built one story at a time," according to the club's website, www.veteransbreakfastclub.com.

Pine-Richland Patch encourages readers to submit information about happenings in the community. Todd DePastino submitted this story on behalf of Veterans Breakfast Club. If you have news you'd like to share, please email Editor Cindy Cusic Micco at cindy.micco@patch.com.