(picture from The Guardian website. Click to view the whole series. Really. Click.)
Around 15,000 bikers rode through Wooton Bassett today, in honour of troops killed in Afghanistan. The Telegraph adds:
The ride, believed to the biggest of its kind, has raised more than £100,000 so far for the charity Afghan Heroes.
Some wore medals from their own service, some carried In Memoriam signs for lost loved ones.
All make us feel very, very proud that we share this country with them. And in that, they join the service men and women they were honouring.
I first read about it over at Longriders, where some clown in the Guardian was, predictably, whining about congestion.
But I hadn’t realised that it was all the brainchild of an 18 year old, one Elisabeth Stevens, until I heard it on this morning’s news.
Good for her!