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Photos © Dwight Drum and Gary Larsen
Tribute by Dwight Drum
We'd like to share special images focusing on US. Veterans. We launch this tribute on Veterans Day weekend 2001, but we don't intend to drop it off after that or relegate it to an archive barn. Every day is Veterans day at StripBike.com. and Zoomster.com
The tribute consists of images of the traveling Vietnam Veterans Wall during a Memphis display. Among the many visitors were five hundred Harley-Davidon riders, The IRON WARRIORS, a national motorcycle club whose members (95%) are Police Officers and Fire Fighters. Some are retired, some are active but they all ride American made V-twin motorcycles.
It's a tribute that doesn't need many words.
Stand with us at a Memphis cemetery as members of the Iron Warriors ride 500 Harley-Davidsons two by two at an idle to visit the traveling Vietnam Veterans Wall. Everybody stood and stared at the spectacle. No words were spoken by viewers or riders, and the only noise was the bikes…no revving, just idling, as the bikes filled a winding road around the wall. The Iron Warriors parked Le Mans style and stood silently by their bikes until everyone was parked. Then Boy Scouts gave them candles in a small bag to place by the wall.
Gary says, "I will never forget the tingle and the sight of it…Awesome."
AMERICAN LEGION ELVIS PRESLEY (R) POST 249
Terry Adams, Commander
Dwight Drum
Gary Larsen
