ALR District 10 member Mike Nettles's father passed away and ALR Districts 9, 10, 13, 28 and PGR rode in honor of his passing A WWII vet and lifelong fire fighter.
District 13 (The Lucky 13) met at Post 564 to go out for breakfast, meet others and proceed to Post 117. As I recall we had 9 bikes, great group! Wish I'd taken names, I'll give it a try. Ed and Jennette, Gary, George, Bill, Doug, Jake, and Mike and wife, sorry forgot the name, sigh.. and of course, Cranky!!!
Lining up for take off to IHOP on Great America Pkwy for breakfast!!!
Met up with Dist 28 ALR and we pretty much filled up their back room, I'm sure folks thought they'd been invaded!!! GBG Jake looking for a seat!
More of the group.......... And we had a lady there that was riding 2-up with her son and we celebrated her 87th birthday!!!
Bikes lined up in front of Post 117, counted 31!!!! And we met more at the services.
This was the staging point for PGR. We had some dual membership folks, PGR / ALR -
Jake, Gary, Cranky and PGR - Daryl, Ray, Doug, Gary and Susan the trike riders!!!, Larry and Woody!! THANK YOU FOR RIDING!!!!! Very much appreciated by the family!
I posted a KSU of 1230 and the group left at 1215, so Gary, Doug and I stayed behind to see if anyone would show up. VERY glad we did, a rider form Salinas came in (Daryl, I think) and it would have been .............. to miss him........
Heading our for the service from Post 117 to Mission Blvd in Fremont... the instructions were very easy, just head down the street!!!
Doug led with his G.P.S and we came to an intersection and he asked which way, the instruction... Ole lucky me, I said go straight and we got lost, but Doug came to the rescuce with his G.P.S, as my M.A.P failed! sigh
At the services we met ALR District 09, bikes were parked everywhere, we must have had over 60 bikes, nice turnout! Lotsa folks there so the PGR riders went on to the ceremony site so there would be a flag line waiting for them.
Bikes starting to arrive at the ceremony site. It was quite a sight to see all the bikes coming in! All of the services I've been at are different, this one did NOT break that record!! GBG A bit of confusion as to what was happening. But that is not new and PGR folks are adaptable. It's about the fallen hero and family, their day of mourning.
But the end result was the intended result. PGR stood with our flags and honored a fallen hero. Mike thanked us for being there, and it was an honor.
God Bless those left behind.
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