Rolling Thunder Veterans and Wounded Warrior Athletes Honor 9/11 Victims at Pentagon Memorial

ARLINGTON, Va., May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following is being issued by the United Service Organization:

    Event:               Rolling Thunder/USO 2010 Warrior Games Send-Off

    When:                Wednesday, May 5, 2010//3 p.m. EDT

                          Rolling Thunder veterans and Warrior Games
                          athletes will honor the victims of September
                          11 with the laying of wreaths at the Pentagon
                          Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. Rolling
                          Thunder, on their second leg of their
                          transcontinental trip to Colorado Springs,
                          Colorado, will continue their trek west
                          transporting five American flags that flew
                          over the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl Harbor,
                          Hawaii; the Korean DMZ, Bagram Airfield in
                          Afghanistan; Balad Air Base, Iraq; and
                          Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany in
                          honor of the Inaugural Warrior Games. The
                          arrival of these flags will kick off the
                          Warrior Games at the U.S. Olympic Training
                          Center. Rolling Thunder began their journey in
    Details:              New York City at Ground Zero on May 4.

                          Held May 10-14, 2010, the Warrior Games is a
                          joint effort between the Department of Defense
                          and U.S. Olympic Committee, and is part of an
                          effort to promote the recovery and physical
                          fitness of America's wounded warriors, and to
                          provide them with new opportunities for growth
                          and achievement.
                          For more information, please visit:
                          www.Defense.gov/WarriorGames or
                          www.USParalympics.org/WarriorGames.

Event participants will include: Jim Laychak, President and Chairman, Pentagon 9-11 Memorial Fund; CAPT Oakley “Key” Watkins, Navy Safe Harbor program director; Master-at-Arms Third Class Nathan Dewalt, Navy wounded warrior athlete; Culinary Specialist Seaman Judith Boyce, Navy wounded warrior athlete; and Rolling Thunder riders.

SOURCE United Service Organization