Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago under Patriot Guard Riders | No Comments Yet!»
It is said that the measure of a man is not so much by his deeds in life, but by how he is seen after he dies.
If that is true, Petty Officer Harris must have been a man I should regret never having met.
The Washington Post ran a story, back on September 3rd 2008, in which PO Harris’ mother described him as a “Renaissance Man”. I never knew him, but if the ~400 people in attendance at his funeral today at Arlington National Cemetery are anything to go by, he was that and more.
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PGR Ride Report - PO1 Joshua Harris, 36, Navy SEAL Lexington, NC, ANC 12 SEP 08
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Posted 3 months, 4 weeks ago under Patriot Guard Riders | 1 Comment Posted »
It’s been a while since I was able to go on a PGR Mission, but thankfully circumstances have conspired to make them possible again.
Today, with the family’s permission, we were able to escort them to Arlington National Cemetery to lay to rest Specialist Michael Gonzalez.
Specialist Gonzalez hailed from Spotswood, New Jersey, and was assigned to the 340th Military Police Company in Baghdad. On August 28th 2008, he was killed by an improvised explosive device.
The first parts of the mission were carried out by PGR members in New Jersey itself. Four of them also escorted Specialist Gonzalez, his family and friends, to ANC today, driving all the way down.
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PGR Ride Report - SPC. Michael L. Gonzalez, 20, Spotswood, NJ, ANC Sep 10 2008
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