A Ride To Honor Husband And Son

I thought this was really neat.  My sister sent me this article in an email.  This is her mother- and sister-in-law.  The article describes the motorcycle ride they participated in; Mrs. A (the mother) was doing it to honor her husband and her son (who is my brother-in-law).  I will paraphrase the article.

Mrs. A and her daughter were two of many (city in Ohio) area motorcyclists, making a 45-minute drive to North Baltimore to escort the Vietnam Wall Traveling Memorial back to the (city in Ohio) Harley-Davidson Shop.  Mrs. A is 81 and was wearing her husband's WWII cap, while sitting atop a Honda Goldwing Trike, owned and driven by her daughter, Ms. E.  Mrs. A also had with her a posterboard displaying a picture of her husband, who served on the Navy Destroyer USS Piedmont, and her son, Vietnam veteran (my sister P.J.'s husband).

Mrs. A said she was glad to be a part of the escort "just to support the troops."

Ms. E has been riding since 1982.  The largest group she had ridden with was about 3,300 bikes, and the group riding that day to escort the Memorial was expected to be about three times that size. 

Mrs. A admitted that this was only her second ride atop the motorcycle, on which she looked comfortable.  "Last summer she got me on it too," she said.  "If I get real scared I just squeeze her."

Photo by Brenna Griteman

Tags: Vietnam Wall Traveling Memorial; Motocycle escort