Posted on 05/29/2007 2:23:00 PM PDT by USMCPOP
"Two gruff bikers were a little late to the Memorial Day service at Culpeper National Cemetery Monday."
(Excerpt) Read more at starexponent.com ...
Here are a bunch of additional pictures: http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l206/nnnnnie/misc/Memorial%20motorcycle/
It never ceases to amaze me what Patriots will do! John served with the Marines in Vietnam. He's wanted to do this tribute bike for some time now, and in the last year, it finally came together.
I know two of the mothers of the other three guys depicted on the tank.
How wonderful! I love Culpeper. Many thanks for your son’s service.
It is an awesome bike! I hope your son is well and safe.
I suppose if you have to be buried somewhere, Culpeper National Cemetery is as nice as anywhere. My Dad actually picked it out. It dates from 1867. Small, relatively quiet (when no trains are going by) and quite historic. The folks who manage it have always been most cooperative. They even arranged to have Karl put next to my Dad (WW II Navy vet) because he was on the end of a row. One of my uncles wants to be put there when his time comes, near his older brother. I figure when my time comes, they can toast me, then sprinkle my ashes around the other two headstones when no one is looking :) At that point, they can sue me if they want, LOL.
Culpeper does seem like a nice town. There are some beautiful old homes there.
Thanks for this post! I always thought it would be cool to live in Culpeper, as my last name is Culpepper. Just a little too far away from Washington, though.
Here’s a little Culpeper history: http://www.culpepermuseum.com/history.htm
The county was named for Lord Thomas Culpeper, Colonial Governor of Virginia, 1680-83. At some point, Lord Fairfax owned nearly 5.3 million acres around there.
This is interesting: “Some 50 years ago, Culpeper was ranked as the second healthiest place in the United States, second only to Asheville, N.C. In 1971, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated the Culpeper-Warrenton area as one of the seven most desirable places in the nation to live.”
I bought my first .22 rifle at a gun shop near Warrenton when I was about 13 years old. The same place is still there - Clark Brothers guns (Clark’s Gun Shop, Inc.)
There be some choice words about Miss Jane Fonda on one of those patches!
The yellow patch above his right vest pocket reads:
Hanoi Jane Fonda
Jihad Jane
TRAITOR
BITCH
If her brother Peter Fonda had been a POW held in the pits, she’d have known better.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
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