Tuesday, June 15, 2010

NEW!!! Jersey

I should just transcribe my vlogs onto here. But actually... I haven’t been too good with those either. I’m sitting in a car trying to recall the last days events, Just to do an update thats worth...Something... New Jersey was amazing. The host home was incredible. We had an event the night we arrived in New Jersey, it was really cool. We had a police and Rolling Thunder escort to the event for a good 15 miles... Running through red lights and blowing past all traffic. Really cool experience and really cool people.
And the next day we went to the state capitol...Capital... Capitol... What is the correct spelling of it anyway? I’ve seen it both ways... Anyway, we had a motorcycle escort for that as well... But, we couldn’t blow through the stop lights... The day in Trenton was pretty cool. But the best part of the day was going to a gold star Vietnam family. This couple, was still together, one of the first gold star families that were together. They lost their son in Vietnam. He was 19, he turned 19 the month before he died. He enlisted as a marine. Wasn’t drafted. But really wanted to be a marine. We were showing the couple the regular flag, and telling them a little about it. The father was impressed. He asked where he could get a flag like it. This couple had no idea that they were going to be getting a flag. Well it just so happens that we had a flag for them. With their sons name on it. Both of them started crying. And the father said, “After 40 years somebody still remembers my son.” I love and hate hearing that. I hate that People die, but I love the honor we are giving the family.

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