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LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. - Nearly 50 motorcyclists left from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office Administration Building in Leesburg Thursday morning for a trek in honor of 9-11 and the first responders who lost their lives on that tragic day.
The 9-11 Ride left Leesburg at 10 a.m. and is headed to visit the crash site of United Flight 93 in Somerset, PA. Organizers are anticipating 5-to-10-thousand people to be in attendance in Pennsylvania for this year's event. The riders will return to the area and ride to the Pentagon on Saturday. The ride will then continue to New York City where they will visit the site of the World Trade Center.
Members of the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office Motor Unit along with motor units from the Town of Leesburg Police, and the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority escorted the group of riders out of town and into Maryland.
The ride is in support of the America 9/11 Foundation which funds the America's 9/11 Foundation College Scholarship program for active or disabled Police/Fire/EMS family members. The foundation annually hosts the America's 9/11 Ride, a motorcycle ride which travels, police escorted, to all three of the September 11th crash sites.
