Rick Monday Flag to Cross USA With Patriot Guard Escort

Patriot Guard.org ^ | 6/23/06 | Vanity

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

That video was the most patriotic thing I've seen in a long, long time, and this country has not been without it's heros the past 4 or 5 years. (We're just absent media organizations willing to report on them.)

SFS

[CholeraJoe]

They don't. The Marines' medics are all Navy.

[La Enchiladita]

Dodger fan and Rick Monday fan here!

Thank you, Dr. Ed, for putting this together. I would not have known otherwise.

What a great event!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Gucho]

The flag that Rick Monday saved from being burned by 2 anti-American hippies in 1976 is making it's way from Florida to Dodger Stadium under escort from the Patriot Guard Riders.


Bump!

Outfielder Rick Monday of the Cubs dashes between two men in the Dodger Stadium outfield on April 25, 1976, snatching an American flag the men were about to burn. (JAMES ROARK: ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO)

[GodBlessUSA]

Thanks so much for the ping. :)

[SuzyQue]

Great story!

[pollyannaish]

Wow. A little misty here. It's the little things that make a difference.

[Dr. Ed Bravo]

That photograph earned James Roark a Pulitzer prize nominatation in 1976. Sadly, things didn't work out too well for him. A short bio of James Roark

[elisejk]

Here's a link one of the PGR folks put up for the Kentucky leg of this mission. Hello fellow PGR members, yep, I'm one too.

http://www.janettetemple.com/flagbabekywelcomecenter

[elisejk]

And a link from Oklahoma

http://www.danzfamily.com/archives/2006/06/patriot_guard_r.php

[SoCalPol]

The Army has medics.

The Marines have Corpsman from the Navy who train with the Marines and wear the uniform of the Marines.

My dad was a corpsman with the 1st Marine Div. in Korean War. Awarded purple heart and bronze star.