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Article: Emotions run high in Run for the Wall
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- The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
- Article date:
- July 4, 2009
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It was the "Welcome Home" they never got, a warm reception a long
time coming.
When people in small towns and cities across America turned out
to greet them, waving American flags and banners, tears came to the
eyes of the hundreds of veterans riding motorcycles cross-country in
the annual Run for the Wall.
Each rides for one who did not return home and is listed as a POW/
MIA (Prisoner of War/Missing in Action).
For Ron Covey, a Vietnam veteran and retired San Bernardino
detective, the 10 days from Rancho Cucamonga to Washington, D.C.,
were perhaps the most emotional of his life.
"The mission of the run is to serve as a reminder we will never
forget those POWs or MIAs, the men and women ...