47 bikers rode 1,200 miles through a blizzard to bring a dying soldier home after the military said his body would arrive “when weather permits.”
Marine Corporal Danny Chen had been killed in Afghanistan, and his final wish was to be buried in his small hometown of Millfield, Montana, next to his father who’d died riding his Harley when Danny was twelve.
The military transport was grounded indefinitely due to severe winter storms, and Danny’s mother Sarah received a cold email stating her son’s remains would be delivered “within 2-4 weeks, weather dependent.”
But when she posted her heartbreak on a Gold Star Mothers Facebook group, saying she just wanted her baby home for Christmas, something extraordinary happened.
Within six hours, the Rolling Thunder motorcycle club had organized the impossible – they would ride into the military base, load Danny’s flag-draped casket into a custom motorcycle hearse, and escort him home through some of the worst weather conditions in twenty years.
