Welcome Home SeaBee Anthony Wren!

Mission Report; NEPA 4/23/2010 Welcome Home SeaBee Anthony Wren!
　
Friends, mission reports are never easy to write. Yes, it is supposed to be simply a matter of who, where, when, why, how...like a good journalist would do. Be we are not journalists, not unbiased reporters. We get "emotionally involved" in our writing, because as Patriots who love, honor, and respect those who serve out country, we should!
I'll start this report with the announcement of the mission, as written by Amy, Founder of Rolling Angels for Armed Forces...　
 
We have Navy SeaBee EO2 SCW Anthony Wren, son of Richard Wren, coming in to
Avoca on Friday April 23 Arriving at 12:30pm, we ask that all riders/ patriots
be at the airport by noon. He is with the NMCB74, was stationed at Camp
Leatherneck Afghanistan as he worked on all FOB Units while deployed expanding
all units for troop surges. He is presently in Kuwait and anxious to get home!
His father personally asked that we make sure "Joe Public" sees him come home,
"keep these men and women fresh in the minds of all, so they don't forget"!
 
Today, Navy SeaBee EO2 SCW Anthony Wren arrived at the Wilkes Barre/Scranton International Airport to be greeted by grateful American Patriots, perhaps fifty in number. Family, friends, and like most of us, those who did not know him, but honored him as a brother, a son, an American Hero.
 
Northeast Pennsylvania was represented today by members of so many organizations, this is why it is hard to write a report! To name all, omit no one! We saw Soldiers' Angels, Rolling Angels for Armed Forces, American Legion Riders, Friends of the Forgotten, and of course Warriors' Watch Riders. We saw individuals, unaffiliated with any group. We saw bystanders, caught up in the excitement.
 
As SeaBee Wren came down the ramp, a cheer went up, flags were flying, and he was soon inundated with hugs and mugs from well-wishers, all thankful to see one more young American, home again.
 
After all of the excitement inside the airport, everyone proceeded outside, where a motorcade of thirty to forty flagged motorcycles waited, to escort him to his home in Wilkes Barre, PA. Many non-riding Patriots joined in cars and trucks. The escort led us about ten miles on Interstate 81, at a speed slightly slower than most of the traffic. This allowed the traffic to pass us, and become aware that the reason for this motorcade was a Hero's Homecoming.
 
As we left the interstate and proceeded through the city of Wilkes Barre, to the home of SeaBee Wren, it was obvious that his neighbors were aware of this event. The school across the street had the student population out on the sidewalk to cheer! Houses flew flags! Their Hometown Hero was home!
 
At the family home, pizza, wings, sodas were waiting, as were family, friends and neighbors.
 
Anthony Wren is home for a relatively short, but well-deserved break. He expects to be deployed again in a month, for an eight-month tour in Spain. But, today, he is home...Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, USA!
 
Much gratitude goes to Rolling Angels for Armed Forces for arranging this mission and inviting us to participate, to Warriors' Watch Riders Northeast PA Assistant State Coordinators Curt Heitmeyer and Dave Corby for their contacts with Pennsylvania State Police, and Dave's leadership through the city streets, to Soldiers' Angels Support for their support, to Friends of the Forgotten, American Legion Riders, and all others who attended today. We even had some very special guests...WWR founder Wayne "Gazeebo" Lutz, National Coordinator Tony "T" Fialkowski...and two others....oh, yes! A Senator and Vice President of the US happened to be at the airport. We did not see them, nor did they see us, but but if they did, they would have seen a piece of the America...the Patriotism that they have been elected to serve!
 
Respectfully Submitted,
Al "Bluesman" Philo
Warriors' Watch Riders PA State Coordinator, Northeast Region (Scranton Area).