This year will be the 35th year of the Meredith POW/MIA Awareness Vigil in Hesky Park and the 30th year of the Freedom Ride. As “Doc” stated all those years ago, “The Vigil was to simply bring awareness to this American issue, not just a veteran issue. Were live Americans left behind knowingly? All evidence stated and continue to states, ... Yes! You may believe what you will, because it has been 34 years and this issue should have been handled by now. But in time “all would forget” …But, not here in New Hampshire, the HUB of POW/MIA activity and awareness standing Vigils in Hesky Park, Manchester Veterans Park, and in Portsmouth! When we stop, we guarantee the Government stops looking.

For those who have yet to participate in the Freedom Ride, the real focus of the ride is to bring into light an issue that affects hundreds of Americans and their families, those men and women missing in action or held prisoner during times of war and/or conflict.

For the past 29 years, bikers, attending Laconia Motorcycle Week, have joined forces on Thursday evening and made history in the Northeast. Over the past several years, over two thousand motorcyclists have ridden their motorcycles in the Northeast POW/MIA Network® Freedom Ride. This year join us for the ride from all points in Country to “The Rock” Hesky Park, Meredith “The States Original POW/MIA Memorial”.

The Northeast POW/MIA Network Vigil in Meredith gained nationwide attention some 34 years ago when a small group of veterans began holding weekly Thursday night vigils to bring to light the nation’s lack of effort to account for all service men and women missing from Vietnam. Through times of basking heat, frigid rainstorms and mid-winter snows, this small group of people held vigils to gain people’s attention to the fact that members of our armed forces were unaccounted for and forgotten.

For those who have yet to participate in the Freedom Ride, the real focus of the ride is to bring into light an issue that affects hundreds of Americans and their families, those men and women missing in action or held prisoner during times of war and/or conflict.

If you are unable to participate in the Freedom Ride, please make time to be at Hesky Park for the “Northeast POW/MIA Network Vigil” that begins at 7:00 p.m. Let your voice be heard.
If you or your group are interested in riding in the Freedom Ride and need more information, please contact Bob Jones through email at Contact@northeastpowmianetwork.org.

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