RIDE REPORT

OCT.18.2008

WHAT A BEAUITFUL DAY IT WAS, WE STAGED AT CVS IN CRYSTAL LAKE, AS I RODE IN ONE OTHER RIDER WAS JUST PULLING IN.

AT FIRST THERE WAS JUST A FEW OF US BUT WITHIN 20 MIN. THERE WAS 15 THEN 20 AND THEN 30 I DON’T HAVE AN EXACT COUNT, BUT THEY JUST KEPT COMING, THE TURN OUT WAS GREAT,

THEN THE FIRE AND POLICE SUPPORT CAME AND THEY WERE AWESOME, AS ALWAYS MANY THANKS TO THEM.

I GAVE A SHORT BUT SWEET RIDE BRIEF AND WE STARTED LINNING UP.

CRYSTAL PD. LEAD THE WAY, AS WE RODE ALONG PEOPLE STOPPED SOME HONKED OTHERS WAVED IT WAS GREAT. WE EVEN PASSED A COUPLE OF LADYS ONE IN A WHEEL CHAIR AND BOTH WAVING AND CHEERING.

AFTER A COUPLE MINUTES WE ARRIVED AT JEREMYS.

WHERE WE DISMOUNTED AND WELCOMED THIS WARRIOR HOME!!!!!!!!!!

I THEN PRESENTED JEREMY WITH AN HONOR COIN FROM THE WWR AND A SMALL THANK YOU PLAQUE, THANKING HIM FOR HIS SERVICE THAT WAS MADE BY MARK WHICH WAS VERY NICE.

THEN EVERYONE THANKED JEREMY FOR HIS SERVICE.

THEN I AND OTHERS GOT TO MEET SOME OF JEREMYS FAMILY AND FRIENDS ALONG WITH HIS MOM ALL WHERE VERY NICE PEOPLE, AND AS I TOLD HIS MOM THIS WAS OUR HONOR TO DO THIS FOR JEREMY.

SHE WAS SO HAPPY THAT WE COULD DO THIS FOR HER SON; I DON’T THINK SHE KNEW HOW HAPPY WE WERE TO DO THIS FOR JEREMY.

AFTER A FEW MINUTES OF WELCOMES WE MOUNTED UP AND WAS ON OUR WAY, WHAT A GREAT DAY!

DOUGLAS MACE RC