The Ride Home 2010

This year my dad accepted an invitation to attend The Ride Home.

The event was held Sept. 17-18 in Andersonville GA

at the home of the National Prisoners of War Museum.

The event was organized by a biker group "Rolling Thunder"

Part of the ceremony each day was an escort ride through Americus to Andersonville National Historic Site. Each former POW rode with one of the bikers for this escort ride.

This is the biker that my dad rode with for the escort ride.

His name is William W. Horn

He was from the Florida Chapter of Rolling Thunder

Stone Mountain

Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base

B-52

B-1

Andersonville National Cemetary

Monument in Andersonville

Replica of the fort

The Some Gave All Moving Tribute

honors veterans who made the untimate sacrifice in conflicts from 1975-present

The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall

There were lots of cool t-shirt designs

Opening Ceremonies

all of the former POW's that were present

signed this flag. It will be displayed at the

Andersonville National Prisoners of War Museum

Heroes dinner Banquet

Each Former POW was given a set of these dog tags

below are a few sites from Plains, GA

This was the gas station owned by Jimmy Carter's brother.

It has been converted to a museum now.

A Bottle Tree

The Bottle tree is a product of black culture- a Kongo derived tradition.

Folk custom said that spirits would enter the bottle becuase of the bright

colors and become trapped.

When the wind blew and shook the tree the spirits would be

heard moaning from inside the bottles

Can't have a post about Georgia without including pictures of

peanuts and cotton.