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Well, this is West Michigan's morning News. Steve Kelly Schmidt's
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back with us soon, and back in studio is the
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outgoing chair of the local twenty two a Day, Scott Harvey.
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Thank you so much for coming back today.
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Very welcome.
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Also in studio is the incoming chair, Ken Brewer. Thanks
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for coming back. Ken, Oh, you're very welcome. We're getting
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close to the culmination of this thing, so we got
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to get to Ken's story. He had a recent ride
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where he took the last cross. We'll have the culmination ceremony,
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So Scott, this a big passion of yours. Talk to
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us about how this started and what those crosses on
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one thirty one represent.
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We started four years ago from just a letter in
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the mail from twenty two a Day saying we're looking
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for a place to display the crosses and explain the program,
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and Post two took off with it and the rest
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is history. We've got just two more as a place
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in crosses, and there'll be six hundred and sixty crosses
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in that field representing the twenty two a Day's veterans
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that pass.
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I don't know if you heard Ken last time was
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in studio, but we talk a lot about heroes on
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the program and bravery and just being transparent about one's
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own struggle is something that I applaud. Took a lot
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of guts to tell your story and to be a
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part of his program and talk to us about the
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cross that you just took from Hell to Paradise.
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Yes, I wanted to tie in twenty to a day
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to a Hell to Paradise ride. It's a PTSD awareness ride.
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So we went through Hell, Paradise, Hell, Michigan all the
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way to Paradise, Michigan. Three hundred and fifty plus bikes,
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about five hundred and twenty people. It was awesome, emotional,
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a lot of guys in leather, a lot of tears.
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But Ken, you've been there, and I talk about my
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struggles with alcohol. I know what it's like to lose
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hope and then to find it again, and that's what
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this is all about. And you were someone that also
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was with your back against the wall.
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Yes, sir, Yes, sir. We get ourselves into a hole
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that we see no way out, and there is a
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way out, and there are people that love you and
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care about you, and as veterans, we have your back.
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Amen. So the ceremony when we put the last cross.
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Everybody's invited to come out for this.
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Everybody to the Boat and Canoe Club. It can show up.
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By twelve thirty we're going to kick it off and
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once again Mission Barbecue is providing us no cost meal
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and it's free will offering.
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And park wherever you can, right, park wherever.
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You can because it'll fill up.
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Yeah, it does. And where is it?
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The Boat and Canoe Club North Park, yep, by the
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Veterans Home.
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Yeah, just the roundabout. Listen, you can figure the roundabout out.
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It's not that hard.
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Yeah, don't go keep me going circles like Chevy Chase
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and say there's the boat and canoe. There's the boat
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and canoe.
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So when this year is done and Scott, can you
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reflect just a little bit on your years at the
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helm of this thing.
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Yeah? Yeah, it's been amazing because when we started, there
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were four of us in that field every day at noon,
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and it's grown now to where the riders have accepted
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the challenge and it's fifteen to twenty people. Many families
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show up. I think of the Ingish halls from last
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Sunday and Uncle Tony's family shows up and everybody's there
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to help, but it's also a healing time. I've had
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a light, nice, long conversation with the police officer that
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lost his best friend. So all walks of life come,
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and all are welcome to honor someone by netwriting their
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name on the cross.
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Twenty two day dot org for more information about it,
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how you can help, and you'll dedicate the next how
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long to it as you come in as the chair.
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I'm in it for the long haul, that's right. So
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we don't have an end date on this thing, Nope,
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Ken Brewer is the incoming chair. Twenty two a day again,
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twenty two a day dot org. Scott Harvey, both veterans,
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Thank you so much for your service, for your dedication
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to this very important work, and best wishes for a
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big event on Saturday. Thank you, Thank you very much.
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We'll get it in the podcast section atwood radio dot
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com so you can share this conversation to help as
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well would radio news. Time is now seven two. Let's
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get back to traffic and weather.