{"id":180926,"date":"2025-08-27T23:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180926\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:14:14","slug":"motorcycle-memorial-ride-to-honor-veterans-in-jacksonville-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180926\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle memorial ride to honor veterans in Jacksonville this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorcycles will roar through Jacksonville this Saturday as Rolling Thunder Chapter NC-5 hosts its 17th annual memorial ride. The event pays tribute to seven chapter members who have passed away, including Ron Relay, in whose honor the ride is named.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Dent, president of Rolling Thunder NC-5, said, &#8220;It goes toward the Coastal Carolina Veterans Cemetery, which is located in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Our goal is, another, is to be able to place wreaths on all the veterans&#8217; graves that&#8217;s in the cemetery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paul Levesque, past president of the chapter, emphasized the group&#8217;s mission, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s a passion for us to, when we join Rolling Thunder, to advocate for the full accountability of our POWs and MIAs, and that&#8217;s what all of these seven members did up until they passed away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ride will start and end at New River Harley-Davidson in Jacksonville. Registration begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday, with kickstands up at 11 a.m. The cost is $20 per rider and $10 per passenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorcycles will roar through Jacksonville this Saturday as Rolling Thunder Chapter NC-5 hosts its 17th annual memorial ride.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,102114,3188,723,7310,102112,102116,33563,102115,102113,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,2512],"class_list":{"0":"post-180926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-coastal-carolina-veterans-cemetery","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-memorial-ride","14":"tag-mias","15":"tag-motorcycle","16":"tag-pows","17":"tag-rolling-thunder","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-veterans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115103273115536829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}