Late last night after helping shuttle vehicles, I was invited to join riders from New Jersey and New York on a short pre-ride tour. I joined riders from New Jersey this morning for an invigorating 2 mile ride to a ferry stop. We rode a ferry into NYC to attend the send off ceremony for Chapter 37, the Port Authority group, at Ground Zero. The ceremony included a roll call of Officers killed at Ground Zero and those for whom the Chapter is riding this year. Together we then rode through the Holland tunnel and back to New Jersey. Our next stop was the bridge over the Hackensack River where Jersey City Officers Robert Nguyen and Shawn Carson were killed on Christmas 2005. The route then took us through Newark to the Newark Police Memorial where we remembered Sgt Tommaso Poplizio, who was killed on March 3, 1007. Our last stop was in Orange New Jersey at the site of Kieran Shields' murder on August 7, 2006. At each stop, two of my fellow riders played Echo Taps.
Stats for the day: 21 miles ridden. 4 renditions of Echo taps
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