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Run For The Wall: Remembering Vietnam on a Motorcycle Pilgrimage

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Excellent book! If you are thinking about joining those who make the journey to the wall for the first time, I suggest you get the book and read it, besides the forums on the "RUN FOR THE WALL", this book gives a outsiders view of the ride, these authors did a great job by STICKING to the actual working of the ride, something that is very important for the reason of the mission every year.

The authors rode Run For The Wall 3 years in a row, the first year to participate, the 2nd for perspective, comparing 1st and 2nd Run, then the third with a book in mind, getting to know riders and leadership, interviewing and transparently documenting their experience.

Whether you protested during the Vietnam War, served in the military or left the country, Run For The Wall, is a book to read. It was published in 2001, but reading it 10 years later is even more poignant, because the authors foresaw the future of the Run, and all things considered what they predicted, fell into place.

Some features of the book are the day to day riding details. The children at the Rainelle Elementary School, the support at the Wall that riders show each other, the leadership techniques, snags, turmoils and the incredible ability to pull off the event one more time considering. The establishment of a Board of Director's after 8 or 9 years of a "folk-style" peer-to-peer "good-ole-boy" process of leadership selection.

A great read for anyone who knows a veteran. The "Welcome Home" theme is encouraging, moving emotionally, and stressed as a necessity to understand the 60's and 70's.