<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b>A Message From PGRPA State Captain Steve Vassar</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"> On this Veterans Day I wish to convey to each and every Veteran of the United States Armed Forces and heartfelt "THANK YOU"!  As we celebrate today I hope each member of the Patriot Guard Riders, whether a Veteran or not, reaches out and recognizes someone who signed on the line and wrote that check for " up to and including his/her life".  <b style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></b></div><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-size:14px"><div style="font-family:sans-serif"><b><br></b></div>"</b><b style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Veterans Day</b><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> (originally known as </span><b style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Armistice Day</b><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">) is a </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States" title="" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;outline-color:rgb(51,102,204);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">federal holiday in the United States</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> observed annually on November 11, for honoring </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran" title="Veteran" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">military veterans</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> of the </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">United States Armed Forces</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> (who were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable).</span><sup id="m_4564351817195161348m_-6355668890982703804m_-3953689768104823773yiv9676600337cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day#cite_note-2" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(6,69,173);background:none">[1]</a></sup><sup id="m_4564351817195161348m_-6355668890982703804m_-3953689768104823773yiv9676600337cite_ref-3" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day#cite_note-3" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(6,69,173);background:none">[2]</a></sup><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> It coincides with other holidays including </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day" title="Armistice Day" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Armistice Day</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> and </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day" title="Remembrance Day" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">Remembrance Day</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"> which are celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(6,69,173);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">World War I</a><span style="color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">.</span><sup id="m_4564351817195161348m_-6355668890982703804m_-3953689768104823773yiv9676600337cite_ref-:0_4-0" style="line-height:1;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif"><a rel="nofollow noopen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