The Patriot Guard is an ad hoc group of mostly motorcycle riders that formed to guard the funerals of American service personnel who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.  At noon today they are going to escort a replica of the Vietnam Memorial into Ogden where it will be on display at the 'Gathering of the Guard' at the Weber County Fairgrounds.

Larry "Kooter" Knudson, a member of the Utah Chapter of the Patriot Guard, said all members of the guard, and anyone else who wants to, can meet the truck carrying the wall at the Morgan County Fairgrounds at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Morgan.  The memorial will be on display for the entire four days of the event.

The Gathering of the Guard is a 4-day event that honors the people who go about doing the business of defending our liberties and way of life - service personnel from past and present.  If the weather holds, and it looks like it will, there will probably be close to a thousand motorcycles at the Gathering this year.

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