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Like thousands of other Vietnam veterans, Joint Chiefs Chairman Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers donned his leather vest and added the rumble of his Harley-Davidson to the Rolling Thunder tribute in Washington May 30.
The chairman, an avid motorcyclist, and his wife, Mary Jo, joined an estimated 400,000 other riders who drove from the Pentagon across the Potomac River via Memorial Bridge to the National Mall's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, U.S. Capitol and Jefferson Memorial. Dressed in black leather and flying American flags, the riders rode as a tribute to those killed in Vietnam and to remember those missing from all conflicts.
"Boy, what a welcome they got on the streets of Washington, D.C. -- quite a contrast from when they came from war, in most cases," the chairman said on Fox News May 31.
"As you turn the corner onto Memorial Bridge, and there are hundreds, thousands of people lining the streets, and they're all cheering, they're all waving American flags, and there's a chill that goes up your spine that is so, so important," he told CNN.
Myers said that following his first tour in Vietnam, officials in San Francisco had told returning service members to change into civilian clothes before traveling in the States so they wouldn't be jeered at.
The chairman said Rolling Thunder is " a very appropriate event, and very poignant for many people, including myself."
Story by Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service
| Date Taken: | 06.01.2004 |
| Date Posted: | 07.04.2025 02:56 |
| Story ID: | 534471 |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, US |
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