UPDATE: Bill Faith has some wonderfully inspirational photos depicting just how one goes about cleaning up “the Bile.”
From A Small Town Veteran who himself is a Patriot Guard…
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Christopher B. Donaldson was laid to rest with full military honors, including a 3-aircraft CH-47 flyby, on Friday 19 May 2006 in a peaceful little cemetery just outside the quiet little town of Shumway, Illinois. May he rest in peace.
The slime showed up as promised but left before the funeral began. Looking toward its allocated location from the church entrance nothing was to be seen but a sea of American flags and American patriots. Nothing was to be heard except the engine and rotor noise of an Illinois State Police helicopter, there, apparently, to protect the slime from big bad scary bikers. The helicopter left almost immediately after the slime did, possibly to guarantee its safe passage out of the area. After the slime left, the Patriot Guard Riders in attendance held their stations till nearly the end of the funeral, then regrouped to provide an alley of flags along the short drive from the church to the adjoining cemetery, then regrouped again to help provide an appropriate backdrop for the graveside services.
In my entire life (I turned 56 today) I cannot recall ever being associated with a finer group of people than the ones I spent my morning with. Click here to learn more about Patriot Guard Riders, then please give serious thought to joining this fine organization. You don’t have to be a biker, or a veteran, or anything else in particular to join. You just have to care. You do care, don’t you?
Well done Bill, I’m proud of you and the Patriot Guard Riders. Rest in Peace CW2 Donaldson, I’ll see you on Fiddler’s Green. Sgt Hook out.
American Spirit- 2, Bile- 0.
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