Rolling Thunder
I saw on the news where there was a huge motorcycle rally called “Rolling Thunder” in Washington DC last Sunday. This was an annual event held by a motorcycle club of veterans; they hold it on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend every year to honor and call attention to all of the service men and women who are still MIA. I heard that over 350,000 motorcycles met at the Pentagon and then rode across the Potomac to the White House! What a spectacle that must have been! I saw a picture of the two leaders of the club giving a leather jacket (or maybe it was a vest?) to President Bush. He looked thrilled. I guess at his point of existence in his Presidency, and his low approval rating, he would probably be thrilled to get any kind of positive interaction with any group right about now!
1Nancy Regg
wrote on 28 May 2008 at 21:25
Thank you so much for your article on Rolling Thunder. I am a member of National also on the Board of Directors and Media Chairperson. We are NOT I repeat NOT a motorcycle club. We are a veterans based organization with many of our members being non-veteran. Also about 43% of our members don’t own and refuse to ride on a motorcycle.
President Bush was given a vest with our logo (Rocker and Eagle) on the back not a motorcycle jacket/vest.
Thank you again for remembering our veterans on Memorial Day.
Nancy Regg
Rolling Thunder, Inc. National
Media Chairperson
2Rock Star
wrote on 5 July 2008 at 6:33
I was just repeating what was in the local news. I’m sorry if I misrepresented any part of reality. The news called it a motorcycle club, so I called it a motorcycle club. There is nothing bad or wrong about motorcycle clubs. I did not say that Bush was given a motorcycle vest. The news said it was a leather vest, so I said it was a leather vest.