I just wanted to chime in here and say a huge thank you to all you folks that are a part of PGR and donate your time to volunteer for these missions. I am active duty military and have been overseas for the past fifteen years now. I will be joining the PGR as soon as I return to American soil and support this organization. Hopefully by the time I return, most of the missions will be welcome home ride outs to the airport...
I wanted to say something to all you PGR members on what you do means to servicemembers. During my last deployment in the sandbox, there were a few things that happened within my flight that were really stretching people thin. It can be a dangerous thing when you begin feeling isolated in that kind of environment because that is when frustration sets in. I started printing up some of the missions that PGR members would write about as well as the thank you letters from the families and share that with my flight during our weekly flight briefings. Even the troops that do not care for motorcycles looked forward to the end of the weekly briefing to listen to some of the stories that I would read out. Knowing people back home, strangers that none of us have ever met...knowing that they are pulling for us and honoring those returning home makes more of a difference than what you could realize. Thank you for doing this...God Bless.
