Biker Jackets Info

What is it? How did it start? What’s it all about?  To start it’s a motorcycle ride that originates in California and ends in Washington D.C. It is a ride that is in memory of all of our servicemen and women who are POWs or MIA from all wars past and present. It is also for the dedication of the people to fight for our govenment to look for and bring back all POW and MIA past and present.

It started in 1987  when Ray Manzo spotted some fellow marines at the reflecting pool at the Vietnam War Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. and asked them for help. The idea to host a motorcycle ride in the nations capital to show the country and the world that abandoned American soldiers in Vietnam still mattered to their fellow servicemen and the country for which they sacrificed their freedom.

It’s quite the site with 20,000 plus bikes proudly flying the Stars and Stripes and the black and white POW MIA flags and Black Leather Jackets and blue jeans meet chrome and sound like approaching thunder. It’s in my mind got to be one off the most honorable tributes to American servicemen that there is on memorial day. It is one of those tributes that all of us should become a part of in some form on memorial day.