On FRIDAY JULY 24TH, our ride procession will be traveling from Jackson, Mississippi to Birmingham, Alabama where we're scheduled to spend the night.
During our annual cross country journey, its been our preference to try and partner with a local American Legion Post in each of the cities where we're scheduled to spend the night. It's been our experience in the past several years that the majority of AL Posts we partner with are extremely supportive and patriotic when it comes to honoring our fallen service members and supporting our mission.
We've found through the years of this cross country mission, American Legion Posts have been extremely kind in allowing us to spend the night at their facility while also providing us with meals while we're in their city or community.
In addition, and most importantly, we simply don't have the funding / resources for hotels for the entirety of our cross-country journey.
With that, we'd like to officially request to partner with American Legion Post #107 (Birmingham, AL ) for the single night we're scheduled to be in your area.
As our escorted ride procession makes its way across the country we make scheduled stops at the homes of our fallen service members.
These scheduled stops are what we refer to as Fallen Soldier Home Visits.
At each home visit we make we present the surviving family members with our Memorial Plaque of Distinguished Service to graciously say 'thank you' for the service members sacrifice and to remind each family their fallen hero hasn't been forgotten.
Once our ride procession reaches Washington D.C we escort the Fallen Soldiers Memorial Flame inside the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery to formally extinguish the Memorial Flame in our 'Closing Ceremony' to recognize all fallen service members.
Our ride officially comes to a close when we lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.”
.”…..American Legion Post #107 Leeds, Alabama:
“They got here Friday evening and left Saturday morning. Some of us rode to Anniston with them to honor Kyle Comfort.
Some of these pictures are from the ceremony they had when they got to our post and passed off the torch for us to guard overnight.”