the love that could have been

Photos

These are some of the photos from the fallen 7 memorial ride on july 6th 2019
It was a long 14 hours on the bike.  This is my Facebook post about the day:

Today was a long and eventful day.  I got on the bike at 8:30 am I got off the bike at 10:30 pm.  During that time on the bike we did 230 miles if not a little more.  We left the broken spoke as a really loud wave of a rolling thunder in honor of the fallen 7 today.  We got to our spot to park a little over 2-2 1/2 miles from the crash site (3000-3500 bikes 4400 riders)  as we start our walk up to the memorial the sky opened up right after the last bike parked and the natural (non man made)  rolling thunder started.  I brought with me flowers to put at every cross.  I put red, white and blue on all of the mens crosses except for 1, Danny boy.,  his flowers and flag are placed where he took his last breath,  as I was placing the flowers in the pouring rain a photographer and a member of the jarheads helping me the gentlemen from the jarheads asked if we could put his where he died.  Of course I said yes sir,  if that is where you guys would like to put them then go right ahead.  For Desma oaks and Mrs. Corr I put purple flowers.  After that I went and stood while they did the memorial with my dad and the rest of the legion,  and a hell of alot more riders.  It was very beautiful.  The seven bells rang for the 7. After that I went and found mike gasper and showed him our shirts because he had asked me to.  He then went and got a member of the jarhead mc,  who then asked where we got our shirts,  I told him a friend made them.  He said he will be getting some made to.  He loved how we worded our shirt. ( thank you Tasha Cotoia)  After we got back to our group we did what the 7 were on their way to.  We completed the mission we rode the next 20 minutes to the Gorham American Legion.  We were met by wonderful people we had been discussing ordering pizza for lunch,  they went and ordered 12 pizzas for the riders.  Not only did they do that,  we walked in pouring water out of our clothes and our shoes...  They had shirts also made for today for the riders and gave one to all of us for free.  Of course our group made a donation,  which in turn got given to the jarheads. After that we had a fun and smooth ride home....  Almost.....  We stopped after we got to Jefferson because we all had to fix the way we were sitting and our pants lol 😂  I have seen some funky things but the amount of pants stuck to peoples butts was so funny.  Once we got that done we made it to franconia.....  And we had to pull over.  Dads bike didn't want to grab and was making a funny noise. Well thankfully we had tools in the saddle bag,  Allen and Mike( a patriot guard rider from mass)  fixed dads bike and we were good to go.  We made it back to rollercoaster road.  Because stupid meade a boo boo.  But its good we got it fixed and we are good to go.  I'm now home curled up in bed.  It was an honor to ride with everyone today and meet the jarheads and other riders.  We came together and blew brians mind with what he thought would only be 50-100 bikes.... To what it was...  They are already talking about doing it again next year...  For now I say goodnight but as I go to bed I say a prayer for all those that where there.  Not only the riders but the safety personal who helped the 3 crash victims today, ( all ok)  plus those that where there with theirs flags out.  Plus the spectators that listened they were asked to stay off the road and they did.  So good night and Semper-Fi!