May 26th, 2009 6 Comments

Ride with the 40

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Ride with the 40 is a cross-country motorcycle ride that will benefit efforts to raise money to build a memorial for Flight 93, which you all may remember crashed in a Pennsylvanian field on September 11, 2001 after passengers courageously launched a counter-attack against hijackers, preventing them from reaching their ultimate target of Washington, DC.

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Ride with the 40 is being led by Kenny Nacke, a Baltimore police officer and the brother of Louis Joseph Nacke II, one of the passengers on board Flight 93. He and four other Harley-Davidson riders will complete the journey of Flight 93 by departing on September 3rd from Newark International Airport, where the plane departed, and arriving in San Francisco on September 11th at the flight’s scheduled arrival time.

Riders across the country are invited to join them for a leg of the route, sponsor a mile or more of the route at the symbolic suggestion of $93/mile, or just spread the word to friends and family.

I think this is really cool and the word needs to get out. It deserves as much support as the motorcycle community can possibly give. If you’re interested in donating and staying up on the latest news, make sure to visit http://www.ridewiththe40.org.

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  1. Torch says:
    May 27, 2009 at 7:43 am

    Good cause.

    Ride on,
    Torch

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  2. Dean "D-Day" says:
    May 27, 2009 at 10:26 am

    Great cause. Thanx for the heads up Liz.

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  3. Alec Rawls says:
    May 27, 2009 at 11:52 am

    Thanks for your support for Flight 93, but anyone who is thinking of supporting the planned memorial needs to know that it is a giant Islamic-shaped crescent that points to Mecca. Public outcry over the crescent shape forced the Memorial Project to redesign the memorial, but they didn’t change anything. All they did was disguise it. Instead of calling it Crescent of Embrace, they call it a broken circle now, but the circle is broken in the exact same places as before. The unbroken part of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in the wake of 9/11, is still a giant Islamic-shaped crescent, still pointing to Mecca.

    A crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca is called a mihrab, and is the central feature around which every mosque is built. The planned memorial is actually a terrorist memorial mosque. For two years, I have been working with Tom Burnett Sr. (father of Flight 93 hero Tom Jr.) to get this abomination stopped. Last summer he traveled to Shanksville to address the Project and on television asked all Americans to please help him stop this “terrible insult” to his son and the other heroes. Video here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4z1QN6m_QI

    By all means, ride to Shanksville and support the memory of Flight 93, but before contributing to the planned memorial, please listen to Mr. Burnett’s plea.

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  4. Pa-Poe says:
    May 27, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    I would love to participate in this great cause. I am not exactly sure when I will be back home. I was planning a trip from Mississippi to Ca, however, this would be more like the ride for me. Keep riding and NEVER forget.

    Pa-Poe
    IPA
    Taji Iraq

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  5. Lou Smeat says:
    August 21, 2009 at 12:22 pm

    Alec Rawls is an idiot! His description of the planned memorial is both pathetic and inaccurate. Check the design at http://www.honorflight93.org/

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  6. tristine says:
    September 7, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    My husband and I with some friends went to Sidney, Ne to visit Cabellas. we drove our bikes from Colorado springs. we stayed at a hotel in sidney, at the same ones these guys did! We were curious as to what the “40″ stood for, so we googled it. Way to go guys! We commend your pflight, and our prayers are with you. God bless you! I only wish I would have just come downstairs and said “hi”, but We had all been drinking! go with God…….

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