Beech Grove, IN (June 23, 2018) — This week the Board of Directors of Bikersinc, unanimously approved to accept the recommendation of our Chairman, J.D. Duggar, for Bikersinc to become a fiscal sponsor of Mission Restore Bronze Indiana.

This will be the 4th sponsorship in 5 years and the 2nd under the program, Bikers Helping Veterans.

J.D. met with the Director of Mission Restore Bronze Indiana, Raymond Brown on Friday June 22, 2018 to formally reach an agreement.

About Bikers Helping Veterans:

Bikers Helping Veterans works with other Veterans programs and organizations in order to provide a tighter network of complementary services.

About Mission Restore Bronze Indiana:

Mission Restore Bronze Indiana has operated for over a year as a nonprofit initiative whose purpose is to restore grave markers of interred soldiers in Indiana.

MRBI 6-23-2018.pdf

Raymond Brown was born in Richmond, Indiana. His childhood was spent between Indiana and Ohio, finishing high school in Richmond in 1965. In 1966 Raymond married his one and only wife, Linda Kathleen Barker.

In November of 1966, Raymond was called to join the United States Army. He took his Basic Training at Fort Knox, KY, and his AIT at Fort Monmouth,NJ. There, he was specially trained in Radio Microwave Equipment Repair. This equipment was widely used and relied upon in Vietnam. Raymond arrived in Vietnam, 3 days after the start of the TET Offensive, the largest and bloodiest offensive of the entire war. It was an eye opener of what was to come.

Raymond returned home from Vietnam in February 1969, and was assigned to White Sands Missile Range, NM. There, he was in direct support of communications for missile firings and testing for all branches of the military. While at WSMR, he was temporarily assigned (TDY) to Blanding, Utah, where they were firing high altitude missiles. In Utah,

Born in an Indiana log cabin in 1882, Baker’s family relocated to Indianapolis when he was just 12 years old. It was there that Baker would learn the machinist trade, and it was also where Baker became known for his athletic prowess in a variety of sports. After proving his skill at racing bicycles (and later, motorcycles), Baker purchased his first Indian motorcycle in 1908. Within a year, Baker would ride it to victory in one of the very first races held at the newly constructed Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Baker quickly established himself as the man to beat on two wheels, racking up 53 victories and an additional 20 podium finishes in the following years, setting 11 new speed records in the process. In 1912, Indian Motorcycles hired him as a factory-sponsored rider (a job he’d keep until 1924), and Baker went above and beyond the call of duty in keeping the Indian name in the headlines. In 1914, riding for Indian, Baker took part in a cross-country race that spanned 3,379 miles,