Pics are from top to bottom, click on a pic twice for full size, text for a pic is under the pic.....
Some great pics here, real good overall: http://tinyurl.com/3d6g982
Cliff sent me his link to facebook, no text but he got some great photos of the GGNC prep, and escort coming in... It starts here... http://tinyurl.com/3krnxb5
Chappi's facebook page where he has many mission pics... This mission will be up soon: http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=140266762701410
One of our finest has passed and PGR was asked to ride in honor, and an honor it was for all that attended. Thank you ALL for riding!
I excused myself from the ride, we had a great showing and I've been having sleeping problems, bunch of mosquito bites driving me nuts, but I had to go to make sure there was a good turnout, and there was.
I did not feel that my attention and focus were up for a large group ride and safety comes first. A small group would have been fine but thankfully, we did have a large group!
Channel 7 had a reporter interviewing some of our regular riders.
Bunker and Sgtmaj in the middle chatting....
I was just taking pics of the group, we had a couple dozen riders at least....
More scoots, and more were pulling in... All of these folks had arrived before the initial staging time! Sweet Ruby on the far end.....
Cliff had his flags flying on his SUV.....
Bunker's turn at the podium.
Hope it was a safe journey for all. I hope to make Part 2 on Monday.
Monday 07/18/2011
I knew this would be a large mission, so I went directly to GGNC. The San Bruno FD normally has a large ladder truck with flag out front and always looks nice.
Initially there were 3 scoots and one more showed up. The center one belongs to John and he was doing the organization for the reception at GGNC. He arranged for some flags to be at the grave site and the rest at the gate to welcome the family.
Each mission is different, no different today. It turns out there was a problem at GGNC and the scoots had to park in a different area than normal.
We were to lead the group with the shuttle van and show folks where to park.. John went ahead of the shuttle, and I followed it in front of the hearse, thought a 3x5 flag waving was a good touch.
The idea was that folks would see me turn off and by then John would be there waving folks to the parking area. Worked fine! Thank you John for all your work!
Cliff was there with his SUV and all his flags and they looked great! He was taking pics so I thought I would too....
The procession coming in was VERY impressive!! Many scoots and Police in the escort, and of course, I was watching instead of taking pictures, sorry!
We gave our welcome salute and took off with the shuttle to the parking area, My pic of the scoots coming in was blurred but you can see them lined up to park. There had to be 100 scoots.
The area where the service was to be. We had enough flags to completely circle the service. The weather was nice and a breeze to flutter our flags.
Very good service with full military honors and lots of brass showed up.
After the ceremony it was time to leave and GGNC wanted to move quick, there must have been another service coming. Slick John,center, I followed him back to San Jose.
There was a service before ours and they had cleared out just before Ssgt Amper IV arrived. The folks at GGNC were worried about an overlap and all the cars.
A great turnout and thanks to all that rode!!!! Special thanks to James B for being the Ride Captain on this mission, we need more like him, step up if you can!
There was a service before ours and they had cleared out just before Ssgt Amper IV arrived. The folks at GGNC were worried about an overlap and all the cars.
A great turnout and thanks to all that rode!!!! Special thanks to James B for being the Ride Captain on this mission, we need more like him, step up if you can!
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