The fourth annual Bouquet Ride was held on Saturday to honor the sacrifice a local fallen soldier. Dozens of people made the journey from La Jolla to Fort…
Every year, people from all over San Diego come together to pay their respects to a local Gold Star FamilyOn a gloomy and misty Saturday morning, dozens of people from all over San Diego came together to honor the memory of a local fallen soldier. The start point was at the California Bicycle shop on La Jolla Boulevard where people lined up with their bikes and packed them with flowers to bring them to Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.
Corporal Millard was first deployed to Iraq in 2003. It wasn't until four years later that he would lose his life overseas."On a patrol in Iraq in 2007 where there was a culvert bomb that detonated and so it killed three of the young men in his Humvee and two were severely injured. So that was Memorial weekend in 2007," said Millard.
"Most people that celebrate Memorial Day don't really know its true meaning until it hits ya'. We unfortunately were a family that had hit us directly. But I think most people, unless they have that direct contact with somebody that has passed in the military, they really don't understand. This event really has opened the eye for a lot of people to do the true meaning of Memorial Day," said Millard.The Bouquet Ride first started in 2020, four years ago.
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