Name: Phil “Two Stars” Epps
E-Mail: Aceepps@sbcglobal.net
Phone: 817-965-5787
City: North Richland Hills
State: Texas
FNG Story:
This is not so much a story as it was an experience. RFTW was presented to me last year by a SR FNG from 2008. He and I had gone through the MSF Rider Coach class together and became close friends. We also share a similar experience as we are both Navy Chiefs. He is currently on Active Duty and I retired in 2001 with 34 years. He told me upon his return from the 2008 RFTW that I should experience it for myself as he could not adequately explain it to me. He knew that I would enjoy the ride but he was right about the explanation. Words just do not describe. All the new companions/friends, the fellow Vets, the Bridge Walkers/Waivers, the waivers on the side of the road, the Police Escorts, the Platoon Leaders and Tail Gunners, Chaplains, the MMF, all the workers, both in the Run and at the places we stopped, and the Route Leaders. But let us not forget the children. I have never seen such loving eyes and happy faces as on the children at the schools we visited. They made the trip for me. I visit Vets in hospitals all the time with my clubs back home but those kids grabbed my heart and again made me proud to be an American. I just wish that we could have done more for them. God Bless the Children!
The rest of the stories you can read from the other FNGs. I concur wholeheartedly with their reports.
See you next year.
Oh, yeah. I need to get me a helmet cam. Any suggestions?
