The 2022 Heroes Honor Festival is the biggest, baddest, most-patriotic celebration honoring our Vietnam veterans. Organized by the non-profit Engage Your Destiny (EYD) and 9/11 generation of wartime veterans, HHF is open to the public over Memorial Day Weekend at the Daytona International Speedway. The two-day celebration features world-class entertainment, family events, interactive exhibits, reunions and a veterans resource expo.
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING NOW?
Because our society rejected Vietnam Veterans when they came home from active duty, many have endured physical, emotional and spiritual challenges over the past 50 years. Despite this, many of them vowed that those who follow never experience that rejection. In honor of their valor both in battle and at home, EYD is launching the Heroes Honor Festival as a way to honor these guardians of honor—to give Vietnam Veterans the kind of honor that American veterans of recent wars in the Middle East have received. Watch this video to learn more about the origins of this incredible event.
10:00 AM / DOORS OPEN
ACTIVITIES BEGIN AT 11AM
MAIN STAGE STARTS AT 12:30PM
ALL DAY EVENTS:
- Activations & Veteran Resource Expo
- Division Meetups & Reunions
- Patriot Guard Riders Traveling Memorial Walls:
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial
• Global War on Terror Memorial
SCHEDULED EVENTS:
- A10 Warthogs Military Fly
- WELCOME // Why we are here
- INVOCATION: Maj. Phillip Rittermeyer
- Color Guard Presentation of Colors
- Pledge of Allegiance
- CLARK the Bald Eagle Flyover
- Bryce Cherryholmes (Prosthetics to Stand)
- National Anthem (Savannah Maddison)
- Bandit Flight Team & Patriot Parachute Team
- SPEAKER: Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin
- Vietnam War Commemoration Pinning Ceremony (David Rose, 50th Commemoration)
- MUSIC: Six-String Soldiers
- SPEAKER: Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady
- HEROES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: Chris Noel & Ann-Margret
- MUSIC: Natasha Owens
- SPEAKER: Mark Geist
- MUSIC: Craig Morgan
- SPEAKER: Lt. Col. Oliver North
- MUSIC: Justin Moore
- SPEAKER: Gov. Ron Desantis, LCDR
- Missing Man Table
- Amazing Grace (Bagpipes)
- SPEAKER: Ben Peterson
- Huey Helicopter Flyover
- Bandit Flight Team
- MUSIC: TOBY KEITH
