Ghost Riders Fund Raiser

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone, this post has nothing at all to do with cml. Instead I want to

tell you about a fund raiser my youngest daughter, Colleen and I went to last

night.

Colleen lost her 24 yr. old ex-marine March 3 of this year, mainly due to PTSD

(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). There are a group of Marine bikers knows as

the Leathernecks MC, who attended 's funeral. They did this because they

are or were, all Marines. They came to his funeral and had a service, prayed

for Jeff and played Taps. They told colleen they would stay in touch and they

did, and invited us to their cook out last night, which is a fund raiser for

helping families affected by those with PTSD.

And what a great time we had. Tim, the main man, introduced us to all the

others, men and women both, and then they had a short service where they

presented Colleen with a lovely flag, with the Marine insignia on it, that they

had sent to the base Jeff was stationed at, and many of his buddies signed it.

Then all those Marines lined up and gave Colleen a great big hug, and said so

many nice things to her, and it is unbelievable how wonderful they all were. it

was like they threw this party just for Jeff.

I always heard, once a Marine, always a Marine, but never realized until last

night just what that meant. And I remember at the funeral for Jeff, we saw guys

we never knew, but they were Marines, and they all said, this is what we do for

a fellow Marine. How nice is that?

I know this is a bit long of a post, and a bit teary, but I wanted everyone to

know what these bikers do. If you're out and you see a bunch of bikers with

Leathenecks MC on their jackets, give them a

thumb's up for me, for colleen and for Jeff and all the other service men and

women who come back so messed up in the head they don't know how to get on with

their lives. Jeff's death was not a suicide, he did not think taking the pills

the VA gave him with beer would kill him, but then Jeff wasn't thinking straight

anymore anyway.

So hat's off to the Leatherneck bikers club and what they are trying to achieve,

I will love them forever. Bobby