Brazoria County Cavalry;
Everything was excellent. The flags, the escort even the wonderful people. Please accept my most sincere thanks. Y’all are the best.
The Anderson Family
Thank you Brazoria County Cavalry for coming out to the 3rd Annual Red, White & Blue Festival. Even with the rain & cold weather, you showed up with your patriotic spirit! We appreciate each and every one of you!
Janelle Williamson
President
Friends of Danbury Civic Club
Words are not enough for what you did for our son Craig! The weather wasn’t the best-raining but we needed it and I remember the words “Gods tears of Joy” at another ride so that is what I saw that day. Craig was so hoping to see you all while he was home from his 15 month deployment so you can believe me he was very surprised to find out the ride was for him. I think he thought we were stopping by at the Junior High in hopes of getting you all to come to the FLC where it was inside and out of the rain! He was even more surprised when he got to ride with Tracy!!! I haven’t seen my son smile much since he had been back but then I didn’t get to see him much either and you made him SMILE and for that also I will be forever grateful. At the FLC he was really taken by what you did at the end. He told me he had gotten word while he was in Kuwait that one of his ‘buddies’ got killed. What tore him up was he was unable to return for the service they hold for all fallen soldiers. When you told him you knew and played taps that was when he was given closure. You have no idea what that meant to him. He told me what they do when there is a fallen soldier and what those services mean to the other soldiers left to go on and see the mission through. He used his name and told me during formation they do role call-they call out the fallen soldier’s name 3 times adding something each time, after the third there is silence. You do so much more for all of us families than you will ever know. I THANK YOU for giving back to my son the closure he so needed and for giving him the chance to SMILE. It’s hard coming home after a deployment and what you all do for our soldiers is just what they need and you always know what to do for each one. May God always shine down on all of you and bless you.
Mark and Debra Anderson
I cannot even begin to explain the overwhelming feeling that went through my entire being as we watched with pride, the cavalry riding towards us and turning into the funeral home parking lot. My husband said he wished he could have captured it on film because my expression was almost unexplainable. I couldn’t help but scream and yell with joy as you all revved up the engines and made all the noise you possibly could! I know that at that moment, my dad was looking down on us and felt honored and proud that I was blessed enough in my lifetime to be introduced to such wonderful Americans, because of him. He finally received the welcome home he deserved, but never received as a Vietnam Veteran. And what is even better is that when I say home, I mean the home of our Heavenly Father. The greatest home of all!
I am so grateful for what the cavalry does for all of our heroes. Please, if there is ever anything that I can do to help, let me know. My husband and I have a tendency to buy drinks for soldiers we may run into at a bar, or purchase their meals….or sometimes just make certain that we extend our deepest gratitude for what they are doing for us, Americans, and for our beautiful country, the United States of America. I don’t ride, motorcycles actually scare me to be honest, but showing my support in another way would fill my heart, as well as my dad’s, if you ever just need an extra person to be there.
You have been amazing all through this and the stories you shared with me just a few evenings ago really got me to thinking. There are actually some pretty wonderful people in this world still. Thank you for volunteering your time and effort to such a wonderful cause. Thank you for changing lives in such a positive way and making the families of our soldiers know people do notice and recognize our heroes.
God Bless every member of The Brazoria County Cavalry. Because of one hour of your lives, you have changed mine forever.
Sincerely,
Jerusha Terry
(Daughter of Roy Edwin Taylor)
Brazoria County Cavalry,
I cannot even put into words what the Cavalry did for me that day. I don’t have enough words to express it but to see the motorcycles coming in a line down my street was such an honor to me and my son. I wanted to touch each rider that rode for him, I wanted to thank each and every one that day for taking time out of their day to ride for my son and then when we got to the highway and there were so many more bikes waiting I just cried with Joy for Josh. And most of all riding behind those flags and on the radio they played America and oh wow, that was a moment I will never forget, I had the radio blaring and tears flowing but that was something like I had never experienced before. I just want to thank you somehow that is huge and I don’t know what that will be but I don’t think it will be by riding beside you, LOL, with my big self, although that would be fantastic. Just know that you made this a better as it could be for me. I feel connected somehow with you all and just thank you, thank you, thank you. Below I am sending a picture of Joshua and as soon as people start sending me pics of the riders that day, I will be forwarding them to you. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need to. I will always be glad to talk to you. They are building a website for Josh and it will be www.joshuaaward.com … Your ride will be there on that site. Cavalry thank you again….
So very very sincerely,
Patti Ward