Welcome.
Every May, hundreds of motorcyclists depart from Ontario, California for a ten-day journey across America to Washington, DC. When the motorcyclists, consisting of veterans, families, supporters and friends, reach Washington for Memorial Day weekend, they participate in the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally.
This year Vietnam Veterans from the U.S. Marine 9th Engineer Battalion and members of Chapter 785 of the Vietnam Veterans of America will team up to chronicle their experiences as they participate in Run For The Wall 2006.
Every May, hundreds of motorcyclists depart from Ontario, California for a ten-day journey across America to Washington, DC. When the motorcyclists, consisting of veterans, families, supporters and friends, reach Washington for Memorial Day weekend, they participate in the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Rally.
This year Vietnam Veterans from the U.S. Marine 9th Engineer Battalion and members of Chapter 785 of the Vietnam Veterans of America will team up to chronicle their experiences as they participate in Run For The Wall 2006.
Each night as they stop along the route, the engineer and VVA 785 vets will
join together to post daily journals on this web site with stories, personal
experiences, and pictures of the places they pass and the people they meet
as they travel with RFTW along it's central route. Visitors to the site will
be able to track the veterans as they make their way to the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial, The Wall, in Washington D.C. The riders are scheduled to arrive at
The Wall on Friday, May 26 and will participate in the Rolling Thunder
Parade on Sunday, May 28.
The stories, pictures, and experiences from the journal writers on this site opens a window to a compelling and poignant chronicle as to why Veterans make this annual journey to ride for those who can't, and why our country should forever honor those we will never forget.
FREEDOM . . .
. . . is the names engraved on the Memorials where we lay wreaths;
. . . is the faces of the men and women at the VA centers we visit;
. . . is carved on the grave stones at Arlington;
. . . Freedom is not free.
The stories, pictures, and experiences from the journal writers on this site opens a window to a compelling and poignant chronicle as to why Veterans make this annual journey to ride for those who can't, and why our country should forever honor those we will never forget.
FREEDOM . . .
. . . is the names engraved on the Memorials where we lay wreaths;
. . . is the faces of the men and women at the VA centers we visit;
. . . is carved on the grave stones at Arlington;
. . . Freedom is not free.