Rolling Thunder Michigan Chapter 4

06/01/2026

Rolling Thunder Michigan Chapter 4 will be present at this event, come join the fun.

Mark your calendars for the next big event! Location at the Mart Dock and LST 393. More information as the date nears, you don't want to miss this!

05/25/2026

1988. Two thousand motorcycles cross the Memorial Bridge.

Three hundred thousand.

Artie Muller started Rolling Thunder because his brother was still listed as missing in Vietnam and the government had stopped looking. He chose motorcycles because the sound of three hundred thousand engines was the only statement loud enough to make what he felt audible to the people who needed to hear it.
The Capitol building felt it in its foundations.
That was the point.
Rolling Thunder ran for thirty-one years. The final official ride was 2019. The POW MIA mission never stopped. The riders never stopped.
Some statements only a motorcycle can make. Rolling Thunder made every one of them.

05/25/2026

Today, we pause.

Not for a sale.
Not for a long weekend.
Not for ourselves.

Today, we remember the Fallen.

The sons and daughters.
The brothers and sisters.
The husbands and wives.
The fathers, mothers, friends, and Heroes who gave everything in service to this country.

Their names are not just etched in stone.
They are carried in the hearts of the families who love them, the brothers and sisters who served beside them, and the nation that lives free because of their sacrifice.

At Til Valhalla Project, Memorial Day is sacred.

It is a day to remember the cost of freedom, to Honor the Fallen, and to hold close the families who carry an empty seat, an unanswered phone call, and a lifetime of love with nowhere to go.

May we never forget why this day matters.

🇺🇸 Today and always, we Honor the Fallen.
Til Valhalla, Brothers and Sisters.

05/25/2026

Lest We Forget...
On September 19, 2006, 1st Lt. Ashley Henderson-Huff was killed in Mosul, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near her patrol. She was 23 years old.

For her actions, Henderson-Huff was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and a Combat Action Badge. During the opening ceremony of the Erbil Police Academy in 2008, a bronze bust of Henderson Huff was dedicated by Iraqi Police in her honor. God bless our Vets!

05/22/2026

Lest we forget those who never came home. 🌹

05/22/2026

Lest We Forget...
US Army Sgt. Willie Farmer was Killed In Action on September 29, 1967. He is buried at Community Cemetery near Princeville, NC.. God bless our Vets!

05/22/2026

Platoon of the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, 1969.

05/22/2026

Leo Gray was born on May 30, 1924, in Roxbury, Massachusetts. After graduating from Boston English High School in 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and later earned his wings at Tuskegee Army Air Field as part of Class 44-G-SE on August 4, 1944.

Assigned to the 100th Fighter Squadron of the famed 332nd Fighter Group, Gray flew 15 combat missions over Europe in the P-51 Mustang during World War II. Over a remarkable 41-year military career, Lt. Col. Gray earned the Air Medal with one oak leaf cluster, a Presidential Unit Citation, and the Mediterranean Theatre of Operation ribbon with three battle stars.

But his service did not end after the war. Gray devoted decades to education, agricultural research, youth mentorship, and preserving the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen. Through his work with Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., the Boys & Girls Club of America, and the CAF Red Tail Squadron, he inspired countless young people to pursue aviation and believe in their potential.

“The Tuskegee Airmen are a classic example of overcoming adversity, and people in our country should know about it.”

We are honored to remember Leo Gray not only as a combat pilot, but as a lifelong educator, mentor, and ambassador for the values of courage, perseverance, and service.

Learn more: https://cafriseabove.org/leo-roger-gray/

05/17/2026

The CH-47 Chinook earned many nicknames during Vietnam, but one that stayed with the men who flew and rode them was “Easy Rider.”

Massive, loud, and unmistakable with its twin rotors beating the air overhead, the Chinook became one of the true workhorses of the war. It hauled artillery pieces into remote firebases, carried troops into combat zones, recovered downed aircraft, delivered ammunition, fuel, and food, and evacuated the wounded under fire.

Wherever American forces operated, the Chinook usually followed.

The crews flew into places many aircraft could not survive.

Hot landing zones.
Mountain outposts.
Mud-covered hilltops surrounded by enemy guns.

Loaded with men and cargo, the CH-47 often looked almost too heavy to fly, yet it clawed its way into the sky carrying the weight of the war beneath its rotors.

To infantrymen on the ground, hearing a Chinook approach could mean resupply, reinforcement, or a ride out of hell.

To the crews, every mission carried risk.

Enemy fire regularly targeted the giant helicopters because everyone knew how valuable they were.

Still they flew.

“Easy Rider” became more than a nickname.

It became part of the memory of Vietnam itself — the thunder of rotor blades echoing across jungle valleys and shattered firebases.

05/17/2026

US Soldiers with the 7th Infantry Division load up in a 2.5 ton 6x6 “deuce and a half” on Okinawa - April / May 1945

W Eugene Smith Photographer
LIFE Magazine Archives / WWP-PD