Wounded Warrior Project

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Wounded Warrior Project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to raise awareness and to help fund the needs of injured veterans/soldiers. To raise awareness for our severely-injured soldiers, I take a great pleasure participating in this rally on Sunday morning called Freedom Run.

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Freedom Run to Ground Zero 05/31/2009

Registration - begins at 9 am at the Hackensack Courthouse Parking lot Departure – 11 am Sharp! Beneficiary – The Wounded Warrior Project Get a FREE T-shirt and pin buy getting friends and family to sponsor you! Get 10+ people to sponsor you for $5 or more and get a FREE event pin & T-shirt! email Rich at rich@bergenharleydavidson.com for free sponsorship forms. If sponsors wish to pay by check, make checks payable to the Wounded Warrior ProjectAll money goes to the WWP.As always, the run is totally FREE! All you need is $7 for the GWB toll (NO EZ PASS, and money for vendors.This year the Freedom Run & Festival will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. Wounded Warrior Project Mission: To raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women, To help severely injured service members aid and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of severly injured service members. Here’s how it’s gonna work: The day will begin with a brief ceremony at the start point. The police-escorted run will depart at 11am SHARP! It then crosses the GWB, winds past Ground Zero and ends up at Liberty State Park for a Festival. This year we’re having multiple food Vendors, live music, Bike-centric vendors, and much more. Bring money for food and vendors! Please support this great run for a great cause! All bikes welcome!
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to those who lives nearby - come ya'all and support our injured troops! :cool2:
 
i'm back. This rally experience was breathtaking!! It had over 3,000 riders! Pix and Videos will be posted soon..... I have another rally to go as well - "Born to Be Wild Motorcycle Run for Autism" next Sunday.

Please educate me on how to interact/talk/approach autistic people!
 
That is great!

I love the Bikers fund raisers.

They do seem to raise a quite a bit, for causes. :)
 
Very cool! I like how project goes. :thumb: I think they should keep it for ever! :)
 
KarissaMann05 said:
Very cool! I like how project goes. :thumb: I think they should keep it for ever! :)
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yep. here's what this rally looks like. this video is taken at different state and different time but this rally was much bigger and longer. the roads were blocked off just for us and i could see some drivers were getting frustrated because the block-off could take up to 30 min since this was a massive event - beyond many's expectations. It was about 1,700 riders last year and 3,000+ this year!

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After I watched them, I think it's nice to wave back at little girl and someone (I presumed it's a daddy?). And the second link, I like the red motorcycle, very bright one.

Yes, I can see a lot of motorcycles. Cool :)
 
KarissaMann05 said:
After I watched them, I think it's nice to wave back at little girl and someone (I presumed it's a daddy?). And the second link, I like the red motorcycle, very bright one.

Yes, I can see a lot of motorcycles. Cool :)
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I wished I had video of me waving at bunch of people but you can try to use imagination. I'll wait a few days because there were tons of New Yorkers filming us so I'm sure they're going to upload it to youtube. :cool2:
 
jillio said:
So, how much money did you raise for the cause?
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I donated $35. Since there was over 3,000 people... I'd say approximately at least $100,000 was raised for this cause.
 
How does that stuff really work? I don't understand....

You go there, make a donation of 35 bucks and then drive around the countryside to araise awareness? :shrug:
 
JamieLynn said:
How does that stuff really work? I don't understand....

You go there, make a donation of 35 bucks and then drive around the countryside to araise awareness? :shrug:
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countryside? in here? :laugh2: sorry but we're in a heavy metro-area. the nearest countryside is probably a few hours away.

here - each biker (and passengers) go to registration place to sign the form and to donate some money at any amount they want. We rode from NJ to NYC and back to NJ (but different area). Along the way - people get interested in it and may come to Liberty State Park and participate. Hopefully they'll donate as well!

I usually donate $100. Sadly enough - I didn't bring enough money. I forgot to go to ATM on the same day because I was exhausted - with only 3 hrs of sleep. I went to 2 b-day parties the day before rally and that pretty much nearly emptied my wallet. Refilling my gas tank took a little bite out of my wallet to. It used to cost just $5 to refill but now it's doubled :mad2:
 
^ Sorry... My bad on the countryside term :giggle: I should have known better...

But thanks for taking your time explaining me :ty:

JL
 
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