Bay County
Veteran's Day Events 2009-Mission
complete
On a blustery morning on
Veterans Day, 2009, 12 bikes, 2 trikes and 2 cages of the PGR and about a dozen
bikes of the Vietnam Vets/Legacy Vets MC lined up to begin about a 5 hour
mission. With a minor amount of confusion, a parade being led by dignitaries
and motorcycles began its trek down Harrison
Ave., Panama City,
FL. Considering we had been slammed by Tropical Storm Ida the day before and it
was still being drizzly and windy, the turn out for our warriors was great.
When we arrived at the
Panama City Marina, we parked and waited until the parade concluded and then
assembled to form a flag line for the Wreath Ceremony for our Heroes. We were
joined by additional PGR members who had not been in the parade.
At the conclusion of those
events, we were off to the Sims Veterans Home, where we rejoined with the
Vietnam Vets/Legacy Vets MC, AMVETS, ALR and others to show honor and respect
to the residents. We formed a flag line and each of the Heroes name’s were
called and branch of service named as they walked through the line. The smiles
could not have gotten bigger or the feelings stronger. It was one of those “you
just had to have been there” moments.
We receive a communication
from Dan Marvin, VTFNF, which in part said:
“Once again the members of
the PGR did a great flag line for these warriors. As I assisted Bill a 36 year
veteran and B-29 Flight Engineer thru the line I got a different perspective of
the flag line. After everyone departed I had time to talk to several of the men
and women we honored today. Believe me that's all they talked about and the
staff told me they will still be talking about all next week. So on their
behalf please pass on a big THANKS to everyone that made the extra effort
today to make a warrior’s day so special. What started out as a damp
drizzly day ended with smiles on these warriors faces.
Respectfully, Dan
Marvin-President
Veterans Task Force of Northwest Florida “
Thank you all who gave your
time for this event when you could have been doing other things.
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