Bikers Helping Others proudly escort Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall to Smithton
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August 11, 2022

Bikers Helping Others proudly escort Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall to Smithton

By Stacy Wolford

Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Edward Stasko and Bikers Helping Others of Southwestern Pennsylvania escorted the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall and the 9/11 Remembered Traveling Memorial on Interstate 70 from Bentleyville on Wednesday morning en route to the Smithton Ball Fields, 690 Peer St., where the memorial walls will be on display today through Sunday.

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