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Posted in October 16th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain Lauren Silverhawk Beginning at 5 Aam (that is not a “typo” it was 5 am!), and throughout the day, buses filled with soldiers from the PA National Guard 109th Infantry arrived at Scranton-Wilkes Barre Airport en route to a 10 month deployment. When they arrived, they saw us standing there with our […]
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Posted in October 16th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain John Miller October First was a beautiful day to Welcome Home one of America’s Real Heroes. Being that USMC Lance Corporal Eric Weeks had just gotten home to NJ, over twenty bikers and a cage or two gathered at Sterling High School in Somerdale ready to let […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain RJ About 30 of us rode from an earlier mission to our school parking lot staging area in Carpentersville, IL. After the ride brief we noticed a young lady named Sarah, who joined us at the gas station we used for staging at that previous mission was still with us. […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2012
Ride report for Ride Captain AeroPilot On the Sunday morning of October 7th, John Lewandowski had a surprise visitor stop by the house, his son Bobby. Unbeknownst to John, that wasn’t going to be the only surprise of the morning. Weeks prior, Johns wife called upon the Warriors Watch Riders to provide a well deserved […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain Stache On September 29th 2012, we had the honor to welcome home Specialist Ryan McNulla. Ryan is a member of the National Guard, two events moved him to serve, and one was Sept 11. He was 13 years old at that time, and anxiously waited for his father to come home from work in Newark. […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain Don (Sailor74)Brady On sat. 10-06-2012 we met to Welcome Home Sgt. Steven Lundy after a seven deployment to Afghanistan. Steven just finished a 4 year term with the Army and is home for good. We met at the Hindsdale oasis to Welcome home Steven with 12 […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain Glen DeVries It was a bright sunny day and SSG Carter had finally made it home. We met at the Dominicks parking lot, waiting for Tommy to arrive. His mom was in charge of getting Tommy to the parking lot. Her excuse to get him there was “Dominicks was having […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain RJ Once again we gathered from across Northern Illinois at the Lake Forest (IL) Oasis for a ride up to General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee, WI to welcome home a group of WWII vets returning from their Honor Flight. For so many reasons those men and women will always […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain Tim Today 10/01/12, WWR members met a proud USAF recruit, his loving family, and a somewhat saddened, but proud fiance. Bradley Branton began a journey this morning to become a United States Airman. There were no rain delays as the escort for Bradley to the local recruiters office traveled […]
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Posted in October 15th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain Tim On Friday, September 21st, 2012 the WWR along with many guest rendered a final salute to Walter “Gunner” Wilson. Gunner was a long time Sims resident and honorary WWR member. Gunner recently passed at the age of 96. Gunner had a full and colorful life, littered with […]
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Posted in October 7th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain Tim Great visit with the folks at Sims. Carol Volpi entertained with the piano as WWR members mingled. Richie, our in-house member, looked proud in his vest, but only after breaking several land speed records getting to his room to put it on. Apparently we caught Richie off guard with […]
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Posted in September 29th, 2012
Ride Report for Ride Captain Stache September 21st 2012 was a great day to honor a hero ! We welcomed home US Army CW02 MIKE MCHUGH from his one year deployment from Kosovo ! Mike is a Blackhawk Pilot for the US Army NJ National Guard and joined back in 2005 ! About 25 bikers were in on this surprise. […]
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