Currently browsing: Patriot Guard Riders
9-11 Remembrance & Memorial events this week
September 8, 2009 by Nicki Faulk
The Patriot Guard Riders are having a Memorial Ride Thursday:
The PGR (Patriot Guard Riders) will be hosting an honor ride on Thursday Sept 10. The escorted ride will start at the front of Bryant Denny Stadium and proceed to the quad where we will park and line up for a ceremony Honoring America’s Heroes. You do not have to be a PGR member to participate in this ride. Simply loving America is all that’s required. We are standing in honor of those Military and uniformed personnel that serve us while remembering 911. Come on out and enjoy a short escorted ride and ceremony that should last about 30-45 minutes. I will have some flags available, but if you have a flag please bring it and “Show your colors” in support of America’s heroes.
http://www.patriotguard.org/ALLForums/tabid/61/forumid/53/view/topic/postid/1234338/Default.aspx
Please be at the front of Denny Stadium by 5:20 PM KSU (kick stands up) at 5:50. Ceremony starts at 6pm.
Speakers will include UA President Robert Witt, Colonel Duane Lamb USAF (retired), Tuscaloosa Fire Chief Alan Martin and others.
Mission Coordinator: Eddie Fulmer 205-242-0950
Courtesy of The Birmingham News, there is a 9-11 remembrance Friday in Birmingham:
9/11 Remembrance Ceremony at 9 a.m. Friday at Homewood City Hall. The fourth annual 9/11 ceremony in the Homewood City Hall courtyard with the cities of Homewood, Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills participating.
Note: If your city or organization is having a memorial event, please email me and I’ll post the details here!
Patriot Guard holds Welcome Home celebration for Vietnam Vets
September 8, 2009 by Nicki Faulk
I received this email from Paul Reynolds, Alabama PGR State Captain:
Greetings my friends,
As you know a Welcome Home celebration is long overdue for all of our Vietnam Veterans. The heroes have always deserved this, and I am so proud to announce their day has finally come in the great state of Alabama. Last year I was selected to lead a committee for our State fair in Montgomery doing a kickoff for the fair honoring our World War II Veterans, and having a tribute to our men and women of our Armed Forces. The PGR proudly escorted these heroes to the Fair, and stood proudly as all of them were Honored. Shortly after this event I was asked how to follow up this wonderful event, and I simply stated it is time to do what should of been done over 30 years ago. So my friends the day has come to say Thank You for all they have done, to finally give them the Welcome Home they earned and deserved, and to ensure them “NEVER AGAIN. This was accepted and now we have began the motion to make their dreams come true.
On October 9th in Montgomery Alabama we will kick off the Alabama State Fair with a Welcome Home Celebration for our Vietnam Veterans. This will include a parade into the fair grounds, and a wonderful tribute inside the coliseum. We have secured General Hal Moore as our key note speaker. I have also secured a most fitting tribute, a fly over by a group of Huey Helicopters. The PGR will ride into the Parade staging, and then will continue onto the fair grounds. Let me say, only our Vietnam Vets will be riding in this parade, as it is their day, and it is the rest of our duties to stand and cheer for our Heroes. Our Vietnam Veterans that are members will be seated, and the rest of us will line the Coliseum with our most proud Flag Line ever. This will be open to all that served during this era, so please get the word out to your friends and community.
I will be updating this thread as we receive more details. We are also in the planning stages of having an event after the Fair, so please mark this day on your calendar, and making this a weekend event. We will contact Motels and try and receive a discounted rate for those of you who may want to attend.
Remember this day is very special, and all of us should be proud to attend. If you are a Vietnam Veteran, Thank You and Welcome Home, if you are not please join me on the side of the road, and help me cheer our true American heroes.
Again Thank You and excuse me if I sound a little proud, because I am, I am very proud of each and everyone of you. We have stood beside many of them as they Welcomed Home many of our Heroes, this time we will stand for them “Welcoming them home”.
Jim “Dinky Dau” Lorenzo has secured a great Hotel rate for this event, as many of his Vietnam Veterans will be staying here, this rate will also apply to everyone. Make sure when you reserve your room please advise them, you are either VFW of PGR to secure the quoted rate of 49.00.
Americas Best Inn and Suites
5135 Carmichael Road
Montgomery Alabama334-270-9199
We will be updating staging times later through the PGR thread and another Statewide. Please get this word out to everyone, the streets of Montgomery need to be lined with Americans showing their appreciation to our Heroes. This will be late afternoon of the 9th.
That’s wonderful!!!
Barons host Military Appreciation Night, July 12th
July 7, 2008 by Nicki Faulk
The Birmingham Barons will be celebrating Military Appreciation Night Saturday, July 12th, when they take on the Carolina Mudcats.
According to the Patriot Guard Riders site, “the Birmingham Barons will be honoring those veterans who have served our country and soldiers who are presently active duty with a discounted $3.00 General Admission ticket.”
Sounds good to me!
For more information, you can call the Birmingham Barons at (205) 988-3200 or visit their website at www.barons.com.
Anyone interested in joining the Patriot Guard Riders in the infield should contact them at their website, www.patriotguard.org.
Opelika Army transport due home next week
June 6, 2008 by Nicki Faulk
Per the Patriot Guard Riders:
After a year in the sand box, the 1206th Transport Unit out of Opelika, Alabama will be making their return trip home June 13th, and have requested the PGR escort them home. The PGR proudly escorted this Unit to Ft. Bragg North Carolina, with escort through Georgia and then North Carolina took them into Ft Bragg. Please join us in welcoming home these true American Heroes that will once again be reunited with their loved ones and their community.
Coverage from Opelika-Auburn News:
The city of Opelika will hold a homecoming ceremony on June 13 to celebrate the return of the 206th Transportation Company Army reserve unit following a yearlong tour in Iraq.
The event will be held in front of the Veterans Memorial Monument at the Opelika City Hall at 204 S. 7th St. and is open to the public.
The celebration will begin after the troops arrive in town on buses, which is expected to be between 8 and 8:30 p.m., Opelika Community Relations Specialist Jan Gunter said.
Welcome home, heroes!!
Welcome home, ‘Bama Soldier!
June 6, 2008 by Nicki Faulk
I saw in the Patriot Guard Riders forums that another Alabama soldier is returning home, sometime today.
Welcome home, SFC Morris Lowery!!!
Dothan Guard Unit coming home this weekend
June 3, 2008 by Nicki Faulk
Courtesy of the Patriot Guard Riders, the 1203rd guard unit from Dothan will be coming home this Sunday, June 8th. Details are currently not available, but if you want to participate, please contact your local PGR captain.
UPDATE: 06/04/2008 — This has also been covered on the WVTY News 4 site:
A National Guard unit from Dothan could return home this weekend after nearly nine months in Iraq.
170 members of the 1203rd Engineer Battalion’s headquarters company was scheduled to return this week to Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.
After a few days at Fort McCoy, the unit should head home to Dothan and could arrive this Sunday.
The 1203rd’s mission overseas included road-side bomb patrols, helping communities erect security barriers and working with Iraqi soldiers to repair bomb-damaged roads.
UPDATE: 06/06/2008 — The Birmingham News also chimes in:
The Alabama Army National Guard’s Headquarters Company, 1203rd Engineer Battalion, is scheduled to return to its armory in Dothan on Sunday afternoon.
The unit, which has about 170 soldiers, was in Iraq for about nine months, based at Logistics Support Area Anaconda near the city of Balad. It has spent several days at Fort McCoy, Wis., where it trained before deploying.
While at Anaconda, the 1203rd headquarters company had about 900 additional soldiers and airmen under its command. Its mission in Iraq included roadside bomb patrols, helping nearby communities erect security barriers, and working with Iraqi soldiers to repair bomb-damaged roads.
Welcome home, heroes!!!
· 
· 