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May 25, 2025 Rolling Thunder XXXVII Nationwide
​Ride for Freedom

As the event draws closer, additional updates will be posted here

Weather plans:

Friday: If it rains at the Vietnam Memorial, we will shelter under the dome and modify/shorten the ceremony.

Saturday: Contingency TBD

Sunday: No contingency.  The ride will depart dependent on conditions that make it unsafe as determined by law enforcement. 

ROLLING THUNDER® XXXVII Ride For Freedom Nationwide – NC
This ride is to demonstrate and raise awareness of the thousands of Americans who fought for our freedom and remain unaccounted for from all previous wars. It is not a charity ride or a fundraiser. Participants ride ‘for those who can’t; our Prisoners of War and Missing in Action. We are their voice, and we use the sound of motorcycles and our presence to speak for them. Please join us on May 25th in Jacksonville, NC.
 
THE ROLLING THUNDER® STORY
In the fall of 1987, two Vietnam veterans met to discuss their personal concerns about the Prisoners of War (POW)/Missing in Action (MIA) during the Vietnam War. Having honorably served their country and having taken an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies…” and to “bear true faith and allegiance to same,” they were deeply troubled by the neglect of attention given to those who did not make it out with their lives or their freedom. These veterans discussed the more than 10,000 reported sightings of Americans living in dismal captivity. Intelligence reports of these sightings were generally ignored by the government and mainstream press. The first Ride for Freedom was held in Washington, D.C. in 1988. Rolling Thunder®, Inc. has now taken the event Nationwide.

“When one American is not worth the effort to be found, we as a nation have lost.”
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
For more info: www.rollingthunder1.com
 

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I wish Americans heard more about our missing comrades, and the search for them.  While held captive, I found inspiration in a quote etched on a wall by a former POW that read, “Freedom has a taste to it that those who fight and nearly die for it that the protected will never know.”  -U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson (TX-03)
We Will Never Forget