Northeast POW/MIA Network
Faith, Trust, Responsibility and Accountability ..... 
We must never Forget

Freedom Ride

June 19, 2025

32nd Anniversary of the
Northeast POW/MIA Network Freedom Ride

37th Anniversary of the Vigil

Hesky Park "The Rock" Meredith, NH
(327 Daniel Webster Hwy)

”Ride to the Rock”

Northeast POW/MIA Network Vigil and Freedom Ride
"Faith, Trust, Truth, Responsibility and Accountability"

Freedom Ride line up at Lowe's Gilford by 5:45 pm, bikes leaving
for Meredith at 6:00 pm to arrive for 7:00 pm.

This year will be the 37th year of the Meredith POW/MIA Awareness Vigil in Hesky Park and the 32nd year of the Freedom Ride. As “Doc” stated all those years ago, “The Vigil was to simply bring awareness to this American issue, not just a veteran issue. Were live Americans left behind knowingly? All evidence stated and continue to states,... Yes! You may believe what you will, because it has been 50 plus years and this issue should have be handled by now. But in time “all would forget”…But, Not here in New Hampshire, the HUB of POW/MIA activity and awareness standing Vigils in Hesky Park, Manchester Veterans Park, and in Portsmouth! When we stop, we guarantee the Government stops looking.

For those who have yet to participate in the Freedom Ride, the real focus of the ride is to bring into light an issue that affects hundreds of Americans and their families, those men and women missing in action or held prisoner during times of war and/or conflict.

For the past 34 years, bikers, attending Laconia Motorcycle Week, have joined forces on Thursday evening and made history in the Northeast. Over the past several years, over two thousand motorcyclists have ridden their motorcycles in the Northeast POW/MIA Network® Freedom Ride. This year join us for the ride from all points in Country to “The Rock” Hesky Park, Meredith “The States Original POW/MIA Memorial”.

The Northeast POW/MIA Network Vigil in Meredith gained nationwide attention some 35 years ago when a small group of veterans began holding weekly Thursday night vigils to bring to light the nation’s lack of effort to account for all service men and women missing from Vietnam. Through times of basking heat, frigid rain storms and mid-winter snows, this small group of people held vigils to gain people’s attention to the fact that members of our armed forces were unaccounted for and forgotten.

For those who have yet to participate in the Freedom Ride, the real focus of the ride is to bring into light an issue that affects hundreds of Americans and their families, those men and women missing in action or held prisoner during times of war and/or conflict.

If you are unable to participate in the Freedom Ride, please make time to be at Hesky Park for the “Northeast POW/MIA Network Vigil” that begins at 7:00 p.m. Let your voice be heard.

If you or your group are interested in riding in the Freedom Ride and need more information, please contact Bob Jones through email at Contact@northeastpowmianetwork.org.

Visit our website: www.northeastpowmianetwork.org or see us on Facebook.

Let this be the best year that all bikers, veterans and people come together for this “AMERICAN POW/MIA ISSUE”.

Semper FI

Robert “Doc” Jones, President, Northeast POW/MIA Network

Faith, Trust, Truth, Responsibility and Accountability

Rider’s Handout and Rider’s Waiver