It was impossible to ignore the chest-thudding, eye-popping, ear-blasting spectacle of tens of thousands of motorcycles slowly making their way from the Pentagon parking lot to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in the District on Sunday afternoon.
Since its inception in 1988, the annual Rolling Thunder demonstration has become a Memorial Day weekend tradition, seeking to raise awareness of the plight of prisoners of war and those missing in action from America's wars. On Sunday, the thunderers gained a few more riders, although their focus was a missing soldier from elsewhere - Israel to be exact. The newcomers made their way from the Israeli Embassy to join the processional and raise awareness about Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit. Now 24, Shalit was kidnapped by Hamas at his army post in Israel nearly five years ago on June 25, 2006.
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