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Listed below is a list of our activities and/or events:
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Our major function is to publicize the POW/MIA issue.
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We educate the public to understand that there are many American prisoners of war left behind and unaccounted for after all past wars.
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Veteran Hospital Visits.
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Placement of POW/MIA flags at strategic locations around the Northeast Ohio area - Ohio Chapter 2 conducts POW/MIA flag raising ceremonies so that our heroes who are still unaccounted for are NEVER FORGOTTEN.
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Attendance or assistance at U.S. and POW/MIA flag raising ceremonies.
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We contact our local government officials to fly both flags (U.S. flag and the POW/MIA flag) at all government facilities. We make sure that those government entities mandated to fly the POW/MIA flag on certain days do so.
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We participate in parades by using our motorcycles and Thunder Trailer to pass out literature on POW/MIA issues.
- Alliance POW/MIA Day.
- Ravenna Balloon Affair.
- Veterans Memorial Services.
- Rittman Veterans Memorial.
- Annual POW/MIA Remembrance Run to Alliance, Ohio.
- Annual Haller Benefit Poker Run.
- Annual Thunder Poker Run.
- Annual Ride to "The Wall" in Washington, D.C. (for POW/MIA awareness).
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Annual Ride to the State Capitol (for POW/MIA awareness) - we lobby our State legislatures on behalf of disabled veterans, POW/MIAs and their families.
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In 2010 we have given 21 meals to veterans familes in need for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Parade.
- Super Kids Soap Box Derby.
- Support for Akron, Ohio, Shelters for Homeless Vets.
- Stow 4th of July Parade.
- Wheel Chair Olympics.
- Bear Creek Candlelight Vigil honoring our Nation's POW/MIAs.
- Akron, Ohio, Christmas Parade.
- Cleveland, Ohio, Christmas Parade.
- Rolling Thunder®, Inc. Convention in Washington, D.C.
- Several Pancake Breakfast and Spaghetti Dinner Event Fundraisers.
- Hot Stove at the Canfield, Ohio, Fair Grounds (fund raiser).
- Education: Visits to Local Schools To Inform Students About POW/MIA Issues.
- We set up informational booths at public events.
- Our National organization helped pass the following laws:
- Missing Service Personnel Act of 1997 - This bill guarantees that missing servicemen and women could not be arbitrarily "killed on paper" by the U.S. Government without credible proof of death.
- Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000 - The Act provides for the granting of refugee status in the United States to nationals of certain foreign countries in which American Vietnam POW/MIAs or American Korean War POW/MIAs are present, if those nationals assist in returning POW/MIAs alive.
- Displaying the POW/MIA Flag over Federal Buildings: Military Facilities - Rolling Thunder® was highly instrumental in passing legislation requiring that federal buildings, the Vietnam and Korean Memorials in Washington, DC and military facilities fly the POW/MIA flag on six national holidays.
- POW/MIA Flag Flying Over War Memorials, S-1226, Passed November 15, 2002.
- Persian Gulf War POW/MIA Accountability Act (Enacted October 29, 2002 - Speicher Bill) - Rolling Thunder representatives again teamed up with Senator Ben "Nighthorse" Campbell to amend the Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000. This new law extends the granting of refugee status in the United States to nationals of Iraq or the greater Middle East region. It provides for the International Broadcasting Bureau, which includes the Voice of America, to broadcast information about the law in the Middle East. In view of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attach on America, the bill now includes knowledge of POW/MIAs of the war against terrorism.
- As a direct result of the Bring Them Home Alive Act of 2000 and the Persian Gulf Act of 2002, live American POWs were rescued in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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