27th Annual Ride For Freedom
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020
UPDATED INFO ON THE POW/MIA RIDE FOR FREEDOM
In this crazy ever changing world we are in nothing is the same and changes daily.
After careful consideration the LOCATION of the REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY has changed.
It will now be held at Reading Motorcycle Club instead of Reading City Park.
It will begin at 1:00 as scheduled.
You will still pick up the Col. Thomas Dugan Card in Reading City Park, but from there you will travel to RMC for the program.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused but we feel it was a necessary
change for 2020 and the Covid 19 guidelines and restrictions.
Please help us spread the word about the change of location and we’ll see you on
Sunday, August 30, in Oley in Womelsdorf in Reading and then back in Oley.
As of August 21, 2020 there are still 81,878 Prisoners Of War/ Missing In Action (POW/MIA’s) from all the wars and conflicts we have been involved in.
(WWII-72,582) (Korea-7,578) (Vietnam-1,586) (Cold War 126) (Iraq and other Conflicts-6).
Check out the website of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) at www.dpaa.mil for more information.
In this crazy ever changing world we are in nothing is the same and changes daily.
After careful consideration the LOCATION of the REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY has changed.
It will now be held at Reading Motorcycle Club instead of Reading City Park.
It will begin at 1:00 as scheduled.
You will still pick up the Col. Thomas Dugan Card in Reading City Park, but from there you will travel to RMC for the program.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused but we feel it was a necessary
change for 2020 and the Covid 19 guidelines and restrictions.
Please help us spread the word about the change of location and we’ll see you on
Sunday, August 30, in Oley in Womelsdorf in Reading and then back in Oley.
As of August 21, 2020 there are still 81,878 Prisoners Of War/ Missing In Action (POW/MIA’s) from all the wars and conflicts we have been involved in.
(WWII-72,582) (Korea-7,578) (Vietnam-1,586) (Cold War 126) (Iraq and other Conflicts-6).
Check out the website of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) at www.dpaa.mil for more information.
27th Annual Ride For Freedom
The POW/MIA Ride For Freedom will take place on Sunday August 30!!!!! Like everything else it will be different this year. IT IS NOT AN ORGANIZED RIDE (closer to a poker run but
without the dots, take any route you want).
Each motorcycle will individually or in small groups visit the triangle of hometowns;
Oley - Womelsdorf - Reading and receive a card for one of our 3 Berks County POW/MIA’s.
Start at Reading Motorcycle Club, 208 Jefferson Street, Oley, PA 19547, stop in anytime between 9-11a.m. and pick up the card for Lt. Col. Ralph H. Angstadt.
Then ride to the Womelsdorf Veterans Memorial at East High Street and South Water Street, Womelsdorf, PA 19567. Be there between 9:30-11:30 there you will receive the card for Capt. David E. Pannabecker.
Then ride to Reading City Park, Columbus Drive & Constitution Blvd, Reading, PA 19602 between 10-12 and get the card for Col. Thomas W. Dugan
In Reading City Park if you have all 3 cards you get a special patch designed for the ride of 2020.
We will have a Remembrance Ceremony at 1 p.m. at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in City Park. Brigadier General Sharon A. Shaffer, Retired U.S. Air Force will be our guest speaker.
Each name of our 90 Pennsylvania POW/MIA’s from Vietnam will be read.
Please help us spread the word.
More details can be found on the Reading Motorcycle Club webpage.
www.readingmc.com or contact Bernieb65@aol.com
The POW/MIA Ride For Freedom will take place on Sunday August 30!!!!! Like everything else it will be different this year. IT IS NOT AN ORGANIZED RIDE (closer to a poker run but
without the dots, take any route you want).
Each motorcycle will individually or in small groups visit the triangle of hometowns;
Oley - Womelsdorf - Reading and receive a card for one of our 3 Berks County POW/MIA’s.
Start at Reading Motorcycle Club, 208 Jefferson Street, Oley, PA 19547, stop in anytime between 9-11a.m. and pick up the card for Lt. Col. Ralph H. Angstadt.
Then ride to the Womelsdorf Veterans Memorial at East High Street and South Water Street, Womelsdorf, PA 19567. Be there between 9:30-11:30 there you will receive the card for Capt. David E. Pannabecker.
Then ride to Reading City Park, Columbus Drive & Constitution Blvd, Reading, PA 19602 between 10-12 and get the card for Col. Thomas W. Dugan
In Reading City Park if you have all 3 cards you get a special patch designed for the ride of 2020.
We will have a Remembrance Ceremony at 1 p.m. at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in City Park. Brigadier General Sharon A. Shaffer, Retired U.S. Air Force will be our guest speaker.
Each name of our 90 Pennsylvania POW/MIA’s from Vietnam will be read.
Please help us spread the word.
More details can be found on the Reading Motorcycle Club webpage.
www.readingmc.com or contact Bernieb65@aol.com
