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Wounded Warrior Project Hampton’s Soldier Ride on July 19th, 2014
Join the Hallmark Abstract Service team as we fundraise and participate in the 30-mile Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride (bicycle) on July 19, 2014 that will take place on the East End of Long Island with the starting location in Amagansett.
Wounded Warrior Project July 19, 2014 Hampton’s Soldier Ride!
On July 19, 2014 the Hallmark Abstract Service family along with our friends and neighbors will be bicycling 30 miles on the East End of Long Island (Amagansett) in the Hampton’s Soldier Ride to help raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project.
We would love if you could join us there (instructions to sign-up are below) but, if not, please donate whatever amount that you are comfortable with to this great cause (Donate Here:https://fundraise.woundedwarriorproject.org/sr/fundraising/team/hallmark-abstract-service-trailblazers)!
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The ride is in honor of Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter from Southampton who died saving 33 of his fellow marines.
Who is Lance Corporal Jordan C. Haerter?
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His story is one of courage, commitment, honor, dedication and love of country that he himself wrote by his actions alongside with Corporal Jonathan T. Yale.
Two Marines who stood side by side in an alleyway in Ramadi, Iraq with video that bears witness to the final six seconds of their lives.
On April 22, 2008, United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jordan Christian Haerter was killed in action in Ramadi, Iraq. At 19 years of age, Jordan was deployed to a Joint Security Station Nasser, in the Sophia district of Ramadi, which at one point was the center of insurgency in that city.
The 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines were in the process of turning over this Joint Security Station to the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines. Jordan, a member of the fiercely proud and storied 1st Battalion, 9th Marines also known as ‘The Walking Dead’, and fellow marine, Corporal Jonathan T. Yale, a rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, were standing guard at an Entry Control Point. At 0745, a large truck accelerated towards the Entry Control Point, careening off the protective serpentine, ignoring all signals and flares warning the driver to stop. When the truck failed to stop, Jordan and Cpl. Yale opened fire until the 2,000 pound explosives blast claimed their lives.
“I was on post the morning of the attack,” said Lance Cpl. Benjamin Tupaj, a rifleman with 3rd Platoon, Police Transition Team 3, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, with a hurtful tone in his voice. “I heard the (squad automatic weapon) go off at a cyclic rate and then the detonation along with a flash. It blew me at least 3 meters from where I was standing onto the ground. Then I heard a Marine start yelling ‘we got hit, we got hit.’ It was hectic.”Because of the valiant effort by Jordan and Cpl. Yale, the truck bomber did not make it as far as the post they were protecting, therefore saving the 33 Marines and numerous police inside of the Joint Security Station and several civilians within proximity to the station.
According to Major General John F. Kelly, “I spoke to several Iraqi police eyewitness and they all told the same story, but one more emotionally than the others. He said no sane man would have stood there directly in the path of a speeding truck firing their weapons—yet two did. His officers, some as close as ten feet initially from the Marines, fired and ran when it was obvious the truck could not be stopped—and they survived.
The Marines stood their ground and stopped the truck before it detonated, and saved the lives of their buddies.” An official after-action report says the two acted without hesitation or concern for their own lives and saved the lives of 33 Marines and 21 Iraqi police inside the compound: “Recognizing the danger to their fellow Marines and partnered Iraqi police, Cpl. Yale and Lance Cpl. Haerter fearlessly gave their lives in their defense.”
Jordan and Cpl. Yale were each posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal and Combat Action Ribbon, the Iraqi Campaign Medal, the Iraqi Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and the Navy Cross. Jordan was posthumously presented with a Southampton Town Police Department Badge and a Sag Harbor Police Department Gold Badge.
Help us honor their memory while at the same time supporting the Wounded Warriors who have returned home from battle!
Because the Greatest Casualty is Being Forgotten!
How can you sign-up and join us?
- Go to http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/programs/soldier-ride/community-rides/hamptons.aspx and click on Register Here.
- Click on Cycling 25 Mile Route.
- In Promo Code enter TEAM for a $5 discount.
- After you go through the registration process and pay you will receive a user name and password in an email.
- Once you have your user name and password you can click on the word ‘here’ directly over the user name to log-in or, log-in by clicking on the red box at the Registration Page.
- You will select join a pre-existing team and on your personal page name it with your name and as a fundraising goal use $75.
- When you have the opportunity to join a team select Hallmark Abstract Service Trailblazers, and we look forward to seeing you on July 19th!
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