The Standard-Examiner reports this morning on the arrival in Ogden of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial "replica wall" which we announced here at Weber County Forum yesterday. We incorporate the lead paragraphs of today's Charles Trentelman story below:
OGDEN -- A rolling mass of black leather-clad patriots escorted a replica of the Vietnam Veterans memorial into Ogden on Tuesday.The Std-Ex has been doing a danged fine job with its live (free) website recently, so we're linking today's full online edition article here. At the top of the article our readers will find an added bonus -- a short video clip of the motorcycle procession which escorted this remarkable monument to Vietnam War veterans to the Newgate Mall, where it will serve as the centerpiece for our Ogden Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1481's annual "Old Gloryous" Flag Day celebration event.
More than 300 members of the Patriot Guard Riders and the Vietnam Veterans Motorcycle Club, as well as dozens of independent riders and the just curious, rode in front of a truck carrying the display down Weber Canyon. Almost all the riders had American flags and Vietnam veteran and military patches and pins all over the fronts, backs and sides of their black leather jackets and pants.
The horde of motorcycles filled the rest stop at Echo Junction so full the police had to throw it out half an hour before its scheduled time.
Led by half a dozen police and highway patrol cyclists, the double line of motorcycles wove a thundering path through the construction zones of Interstate 80, rumbled past South Weber and lit up Wall Avenue from 31st Street to the Newgate Mall with flags, headlights and the rumbling thunder of barely muffled engines.
This event runs through Sunday. There will bands, dignitaries, speeches and everything you'd expect for a proper Ogden City patriotic celebration. We hope more than a few of our gentle readers will make it a point to check it out .
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I hear Mayor Godfrey will be speaking at the ceremonies on Thursday. I expect there will be lots of attendees who will show up in uniform. Do you suppose Godfrey will get into the spirit, and put on his little French officer's "Napoleon Dress Blues"?
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