Shriners, Angel Flight are partners

To the editor:Thank you for printing the informative article in the July 29 paper regarding Angel Flight. As the article stated, Angel Flight is made up of over 1,000 volunteer professional and amateur pilots who give their time and the use of their personal aircraft to fly passengers who cannot afford airline tickets or need immediate attention to get medical treatment.

The newspaper accounting further mentioned that Angel Flight flew a young man, Jacob Allen, from Carl Junction, Mo., to a hospital in Cincinnati for treatment of burns that he had sustained.

For the record, that hospital is one of four burn units within the Shriners Hospitals for Children system. Young Jacob had received all of his burn treatment, reconstruction surgery and rehabilitation at that hospital.

Shriners hospitals, for several years now, have formed a partnership with Angel Flight so that no child need go without proper care. Shriners hospitals, as does Angel Flight, provides services to those in need without any cost and without any regard for race, religion, economic status or national origin. We exist only to serve kids.

KENNETH E. MYLES, Missouri Donor Relations Director, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cape Girardeau