Memorial Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36XYOvaRCho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6Srort8M8

Hello to all,

The above links go to my Youtube account, and are of my participation in the "Rolling Thunder" parade, and my salute to our veterans. This event takes place every year in Washington DC on Memorial Day weekend, with over 600,000 bikes taking part in today's parade. The heat took a toll on some, with medical services having to assist a few folks who passed out due to heat related problems.

My friend, Becca, rode along, and while doing so shot some still photographs.

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"The Marine" you see here comes to the event every year, and salutes every bike that goes by for over four hours!!! He does this without a break, and doesn't waver in heat hot enough to take the average man to his knees rather quickly. "The Marine" does this in full dress uniform!!!

Here is the photographer and I:

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I hope all of you had a great Memorial Day, and will have many more. I will keep this short, as the videos will say all that is needed to say on this day...

I will add President Lincoln's words that were spoken at Gettysburg, but are still relevant today, “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Keep your head down,

Henry

Hello to all of our men and women Over There ... from this point on known as Our Boys ... I am bringing my blog back to you since The War continues. I will do my best to keep you abreast of happenings back home. 

May 22, 2012

This weekend Memorial Day will bring most of us together to honor you, and to celebrate life the old fashioned American way ... hot dogs, BBQ, heat, and family fun. The forecast is hot, muggy, and sunshine ... it doesn't get any better than that!

I will be one of the 650,000 riders to ride for those who cannot ride, as we close in on Washington D.C. for Rolling Thunder. The parade through the city starts at noon, and will end at the Vietnam Wall, the World War Two memorial, and the rest of the wonderful memorials and sites in our capitol city.

Photos and film to come!

Keep your head down,

Henry