Price of Liberty Monument dedication ceremony, Austin, TX, 02 DEC 2017

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Confirmed Mission: The sponsors and organizers of the Price of Liberty Texas War Memorial have invited the Patriot Guard Riders to participate in the dedication ceremony. The Memorial will be placed near the Capitol in Austin and will honor service members and their families from all military branches who have fought or still currently fight the Global War on Terror.

Read more about the memorial and the event here: texaswarmemorial.com/and https://priceoflibertyevents.com/

Date/Time: Saturday, 02 December 2017. Ceremony scheduled for 10 am.

Location: 1201 Brazos Street, Austin, TX. The streets immediately surrounding the event will be closed to regular traffic. Motorcycle Only Parking has been set aside on Brazos Street immediately west of the Texas State Library & Archives building.

Location map link: https://goo.gl/maps/emk9NUfrRKs

Timeline:
9:00 am – 9:30 am Staging
9:30 am – Briefing
9:40 am – Flag line

Wx: Too early to tell.

Ride Captain: Mark Wells, mwells2@austin.rr.com, 512-470-0380
Flag Wrangler: Mark Wells

Notes: Arrive ON TIME for the briefing. Fly your big flags! If we have enough riders in attendance we will swap out flag line participants and maintain the flag line for the approximate 1 hour duration of the ceremony. Otherwise we will strike the flag line as the color guard exits.

Please attend this mission to help memorialize those Texans who have lost their lives while serving since 9/11.

[markwells]

Wow, what a great turnout for this event. We had 61 bikes, half of those from San Antonio PGR. Thank you to Jean Clark and Melissa of SAPGR for their help today. We stood about 20 in the flag line for the entire event, about 1.5 hrs, having enough riders for relief. It also helped that we were in the shade of the trees along side the seating area.

It was a well orchestrated ceremony. We heard from Senator Birdwell who was a Captain in the US Army and severely injured at the Pentagon on 9/11. Scott Brown of the Scooter Brown band performed a heartfelt original song written with Chris Kyle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLlZN2NyLzA

A fighter jet flyover and the military band kept things lively.

The sculpture should be installed at it;s final location by end of January, so make a point to get down there and check it out.

Thank you to everyone who came from near and far for this event.

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