Posted on 10/08/2006 8:04:55 AM PDT by george76
About 5,000 motorcyclists rode in a caravan in honor of the 16-year-old girl who was shot at her high school by a gunman who held her hostage.
The motorcyclists, including Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener, rode 40 miles to Platte Canyon High School from Columbine High School, the scene of the nation's worst school shooting in 1999.
It was Wegener who made the call for SWAT officers to invade a classroom where authorities said Duane Morrison, 53, took Emily Keyes and other girls hostage and molested them on Sept. 27.
Morrison shot Emily in the head after SWAT officers stormed the classroom and then shot and killed himself, authorities said. The other hostages survived.
On Saturday, bikers paid donations to take part in the ride from Columbine to Bailey.
The procession was so long that the first bikers, riding two abreast, pulled into Platte Canyon High School as the last bikers left Columbine.
Money collected from the ride will go to a fund to help the girls who were taken hostage.
Dan Patino, who came up with the idea for the ride, said he was stunned by its turnout.
"There's not a lot to say," Emily's father, John-Michael Keyes, told the crowd. "This is amazing."
" 2,081 pulled out of Columbine , with many others joining the ride out of Columbine ..."
The sheriff
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Two? Two what?
Two for victory.
Two for we will fight back.
good story...and great pics.
If that's what you mean, you ought to turn those fingers around Churchill-style.
That hand gesture will always mean "America sucks. Get out of Viet Nam and let the communists win; unilaterally disarm and let the Soviets win the Cold War."
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Thank you.
Okay, okay, Churchill did it that way, too.
Still, that was before the treasonous left co-opted it.
Good work and finds.
And the non-treasonous right, and the non-politicals use it the old way, and have taken it back (many never gave it up!)
Well, there are many of us who lived through those times who will never see it without wanting to puke.
Great story!
Thank you for posting it!
BUMP!
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We need to never forget.
And also stand up .
Morrison (the perp) certainly helped the Ride's cause when he attacked and threatened the local Harley dealership a while back.
Can you imagine being Sheriff Wegener in this situation? He said the other morning on TV that his son and Emily had been little grade school "crushes" for one another when much younger.
I did not know that the perp threatened the local Harley dealer.
I lived through those times too...but the Summer of Love was 39 years ago....It was a blip, bypassed by other things by 1975. Maybe 7 years or so of use by the youth culture against all the good history.
V for victory. The left tries, but can't co-opt what is good and solid.
Satan has been really busy lately.
Sorry MS. B, Marteen is the keeper of the list . . .
StarCMC maintains a Patriot Guard Rider's ping list. I've included her on this post as well.
Ride safe!
That's AWESOME!!
Thanks for the pingarooni!!
Pinging the PGR list to a non-PGR event, but it's really cool!
Should we tell them the "V" is for "V-Twin"?
Naaaahhhhh <|:-)~~
Yes he has, but we are not going defeated by him....
Yep - it was 2 years ago and it was by telephone. He threatened to come to the local Harley dealership with an assault rifle to settle his grievance with them for not taking him off of their catalog mailing list!
It was recorded and then reported to the sheriff. He was arrested for it and then I believe maybe he skipped out and had a misdemeanor warrant on him for it.
They've played it on TV a few times, but the audio is available on this page - scroll down to "Web Extras - Audio" to play it. WARNING: Explicit language.
http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_4424734
Thank you for the post and pictures! It is encouraging to see such a great turnout!
When we were in grade school and used to put the "V for Victory" sign up behind a classmate's head for picture-taking, we thought they were "devil horns" - but I've seen them lately called "bunny ears" in the media, as in Playboy bunny, I suppose.
Funny how time changes some things.
Ellen Keyes, Emily's mom, was on Dateline this weekend and made a poignant observation, among many others.
Emily and her twin brother, Casey, had been born a few weeks early - but their original due date all along was September 27th! That became the date of Emily's death, as we know now.
Awesome!
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Great story and pics! Thanks for posting it.
We need to arm the teachers.
Thanks.
Letting CCW permitted and trained principals, teachers, and staff help on the security would be good.
Emily's father, in the Dateline interview last night, said something that brought a little chuckle to the interviewer.
He has long hair, which he wears in a ponytail. The interviewer was asking him if he had been close to Sheriff Wegener or his family, which had already been partially established because of their children's friendships and had been mentioned by the sheriff in his part of the interview, which was separate.
John Michael Keyes told the reporter, sure, they knew each other pretty well. Then he noted, "as you can imagine, I don't always agree with his point of view on things ..."
The reporterette interjected something about "oh, a longhair hippie type and the sheriff, that sort of thing ...." Keyes laughed and said "yeah ..."
BUT, he continued, he fully supported Wegener's decision to send the SWAT team in when he did. Keyes hadn't thought twice about it, said he did just an outstanding job.
That, of course, meant the world to Wegener when he met with the Keyeses for the first time, on Thursday after the shooting.
Seeing the close-cropped Wegener in his flag-emblazoned jacket just brought home to me the contrast and yet, the spoken and unspoken simpatico between the two at a time when it could've gone down very differently.
The Sheriff, and his lady, ain't wearin' no lid. Parade permit, or legal in Colorado?
Jus' jealous in Kalifornia!
Colorado had a helmet law, but I believe not now.
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