Support Our Heros motorcycle run 2009

  • Gary Meyers, retired Millwrights Local 548, was a road captain
  • Riders dig in to the chow line.
  • Support Our Heros riders
  • Retired Local 2728 member Bob Coolidge shields himself from the weather as best he can.
  • Rider John Schlundt, Carpenters Local 851, listens as Veteran John Lesney shows off a 1950 Vincent motorcycle he owned
  • Road captains, including Zach Lee (center), plan logistics
  • Riders pull into the vets camp at the end of a soggy ride
  • Kipp Forschen, Local 2728, wrings water from his socks
  • Ride organizers Mark Rozak and Marty LeBrie, Local 2728, take a breather and warm up with some coffee
  • Roger Hammersten of the American Postal Workers Union at the Eagan bulk mail center
  • John Kroska, Local 2792
  • Matt Vandervegt, Local 2728, just back from serving in Afghanistan with Marines
  • Matt Anderson, Local 2728, warms up at a campfire
  • Camp board member Ken Larson slices up one of the pigs
  • Rick Jennings, Local 2728, talks with a veteran
  • Marty LeBrie, Local 2728, reads off a raffle ticket
  • Camp volunteers put the pull in the pork before the picnic
  • Riders and supporters bid on donated auction items
  • Local 915 president Mike Keapproth bids on an auction item
  • Dave Hansen, Local 2728
  • Robert Ekeberg, camp director
  • Custom-painted mailboxes were among items auctioned off to raise money for the camp