July - Ring of Fire HOG

Chapter 8155—Madison, TN
Lincoln’s
Letters
S
o it is here! We’re halfway through the year!
Can you believe it? Time sure
does fly when you’re having
fun.
Summer also means we are
in full swing of the riding season. We’ve already esperienced quite a lot though. We
kicked off the season with our
spring ride to Helen, Georgia.
We had an eventful and great
Lincoln’s Letters
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Yarlett’s Corner
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Staff & Officers
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Calendar
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time riding the UpperCumberland area during the
Tennessee State H.O.G Rally
and ventured through some
great roads back in Maggie
Valley. But wait, there’s more!
We’ve also had a very active
L.O.H. that lead us on an Easter egg hunt, set up a great
wine tasting event, and
showed us a great time at
Bunko. In addition, we’ve
sprinkled in some weekend
rides, dinner rides, H.O.G. Socials, and some bike nights
with the Boswell’s crew.
Not to fret though. You’ve
not missed it all. We still have
a lot to go in the year but
you’ll want to get in on the
action as soon as you can.
Here’s what you have to look
forward to.
Cpl. William Kyle
Carpenter
With the Celebration of our
Nation’s 238th Birthday among
us let us honor those who ensure that our Freedoms continue.
rifleman who shielded a fellow Marine from a grenade
thrown at them during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2010,
received the Medal of Honor
from President Obama on
Thursday.
Cpl Kyle Carpenter/USMCRet
is the latest to be recognized
by receiving the Congressional
Medal of Honor:
“Corporal William Kyle Carpenter should not be alive today,” Mr. Obama said during the ceremony.
WASHINGTON — Cpl. William
Kyle Carpenter, an automatic
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Lincoln’s Letters (cont’d)
We start the 3rd quarter of the year with a get-together on July 3rd. The details of which are
posted on the website and Facebook. We have an overnight ride to see
some very special ladies in Crossville, Tennessee coming up the second weekend of July. There
is also a Boswell’s H.O.G. chapter rendezvous in Monteagle, Tennessee, some weekend adventures around the area, more H.O.G. socials, some pampering and pictures sponsored by our
L.O.H., dinner rides, and bike nights.
As you can tell, we are not sitting on our laurels but planning more for you to do and see.
These are the long warm days of summer and the best time to get out and spend some time
with you H.O.G. family whenever you can. Come on out, get involved, and have some fun
with us!
Lincoln Atwood
Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter (cont’d)
“But we are here because this man, this United States Marine, faced down that terrible explosive power, that unforgiving force, with his own body — willingly and deliberately — to protect a fellow Marine.”
He is the eighth living recipient of the medal for service in Afghanistan or Iraq. The Medal of
Honor is the nation’s highest military honor.
In his platoon’s second day of heavy fighting with the Taliban, Corporal Carpenter, then a
lance corporal, was stationed on top of a mud hut, alongside Lance Cpl. Nicholas Eufrazio,
when a grenade landed on the rooftop. Corporal Carpenter leapt between the explosive and
his fellow Marine, absorbing the brunt of the blast with his body.
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President Obama presented the Medal of Honor to Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter, who threw himself on a grenade in Afghanistan.
Credit Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times
Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter (cont’d)
Sgt. Jared Lilly, at the time a lance corporal in Corporal Carpenter’s platoon, was one of the
first Marines on the scene after the grenade detonated. “When I got to Kyle, he was face
down, so I grabbed his arm to try and roll him over and instantly realized his arm was broken.
Then, I grabbed his flak jacket and he was just dead weight,” Sergeant Lilly said. “When we
rolled him over, that’s when I realized how catastrophic his injuries were.”
Several Marines applied pressure dressings and tourniquets to his arms when Corporal Carpenter regained some consciousness. “I remember my buddies yelling at me, and it sounded
like they were a football field away, and I remember them yelling, ‘You’re gonna make it,
you’re gonna make it!’ I just kept trying to tell them that I was going to die,” Corporal Carpenter said in an interview last month. “The last thought that I had was, I made peace with God.”
Several weeks later, he woke up in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Much of Corporal Carpenter’s face was reconstructed during his recovery at the hospital,
since the blast blew away “pretty much everything from the eyes down,” he said. He lost his
right eye. Doctors removed shrapnel from his head and repaired his shattered right arm,
which was broken in more than 30 places.
Corporal Eufrazio, who was since promoted, also suffered serious injuries, including
a traumatic brain injury that left him unable to speak. He is now recovering at home in Plymouth, Mass.
After the ceremony, Corporal Carpenter said he would wear the medal on behalf of his fellow Marines. “As the president put the Medal of Honor around my neck, I felt the history and
the weight of a nation,” he said in a brief statement. “I will wear it for those who have been
wounded on distant lands who still continue to fight in battle, and through long and difficult
days of recovery here at home. And for those who have given it all, I can never express in
words what you mean for this nation.”
After two and a half years in the hospital, Corporal Carpenter, now 24, was released in July
2013 and he medically retired from the Marines. Three weeks later, he attended his first class
at the University of South Carolina, where he is a full-time student and considering a major in
psychology. He completed his first marathon last year.
“If any American seeks a model of the strength and resilience that define us as a people, including this newest 9/11 generation, I want you to consider Kyle,” Mr. Obama said. “After everything he’s been through, he skis, he snowboards, he’s jumped from a plane — with a parachute, thankfully.”
Mike Yarlett Sr.
~ July 2014 ~
Sun
Mon
Tue
1
Wed
2
Dinner Ride
6
7
8
Thu
Fri
3
5
11
12
ROF
Chapter
Meeting
9
10
Boswell’s Ring Upperof Fire @
Cumberland
Silverados
Chapter
Meeting
13
14
15
Mom’s Ride
Nashville
Chapter
Meeting
Dinner Ride
20
21
22
16
28
23
29
17
Mom’s Ride
18
Music City
Chapter
Meeting
Boswell’s Bike
Night @
Roadside
27
Sat
4
24
19
LOH—
Pampering @
Co Capelli
Salon
25
26
ROF
Officers
Meeting
30
Notes:
Dinner Ride
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Ring of Fire Harley-Davidson
Madison, TN
~ August 2014 ~
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
1
Sat
2
Boswell’s HOG Boswell’s HOG
Rendezvous
Rendezvous
3
4
5
6
7
Boswell’s HOG
Rendezvous
10
14
8
9
ROF
Chapter
Meeting
11
12
13
Nashville
Chapter
Meeting
Dinner Ride
Boswell’s Ring Upperof Fire @
Cumberland
Silverados
Chapter
Meeting
14
18
19
20
Fisher House
Charity Ride
15
21
16
Day Ride—
Union City
22
23
Music City
Chapter
Meeting
24
25
26
27
28
Boswell’s Bike
Night @
Roadside
HOG Social
29
30
ROF
Officer
Meeting
LOH Photo
Shoot
~ September 2014 ~
Sun
Mon
1
Tue
2
Wed
3
Thu
4
Fri
5
ROF
Chapter
Meeting
7
8
9
10
New Member
Ride
Nashville
Chapter
Meeting
Dinner Ride
Boswell’s Ring Upperof Fire @
Cumberland
Silverados
Chapter
Meeting
11
14
15
16
17
18
22
23
Boswell’s Bike
Night @
Roadside
28
29
30
24
25
ROF
Officer
Meeting
6
Progressive
Ride
12
13
19
20
Music City
Chapter
Meeting
21
Sat
LOH – Lawn
Party @
Sumner Crest
26
27
Day Ride
Ring of Fire H.O.G. Chapter
Boswell’s Harley-Davidson
2200 Gallatin Pike North
Madison, TN 37115
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