[PGR_PA_r11] Memorial Day Remembrance

[STATE CAPTAIN]

Fellow Patriot Guard Riders,
  As we all are hopefully with our families or friends, let us remember the
reason for today ... those who did not come home.  Today is not the day to
thank our veterans, that is Veteran's Day.  Today is not the day to thank
our Service Members, that was Armed Forces Day.  Today is about those who
paid the price for our Freedom with their life.
  Many personal friends right now are grieving the loss of a comrade in
arms, my heart is aching for you.  Just know there are friends out here
that care deeply for you ... reach out and talk with them.  Maybe not about
the pain you are feeling or why, but about how bad the Buccos or Phillies
are in such a rut, or the weather and deciding on building an Arc or not.
Reach out and talk.  I am here for you, even though I may not have the
right weaponry in my arsenal to help you, I know how to call in close air
support!
  Please, before you sit down the the picnic/BBQ/meal think back and relay
to the younger members of your family about the last 13 years of the
Patriot Guard Riders' Honor Missions, the wars fought in the desert sands,
the jungles, the mountains, the beaches and airspace of 2 oceans/3
continents, the covert & Cold Wars, and right here on our own soil ...
remember those who signed that bank check that was their lives to the
American People.  Say their names aloud ... a coward dies a thousand times
before their death, a warrior dies but twice, once upon the battlefield and
once when he is forgotten.
  I want to thank all of you, who do so much for our Nations Hero's and
their grieving families.  You take time away from your families to spend a
few hours with perfect strangers to ensure they are comforted in knowing
there are those who DO care about the sacrifices their loved one has made
through their service to our Nation.  And although today is not about the
service member deployed or in basic training who cannot be with family,
think of them as well, they also need our support.

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*Respectfully,ⓋTimmaye!!!*
Timothy N Smith
Master Sergeant, United States Air Force (Retired)
State Captain
Senior Ride Captain, Region 10
*Patriot Guard Riders of **Pennsylvania *
*: " * HONOR * DIGNITY * RESPECT * "*
*"Our Flag does not fly of its own accord ... it flies as our Soldiers,
Marines, Sailors, Airmen & Coasties rush past to protect her!" ~Timothy N
Smith 2014*
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