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To be able to keep riding freely, we need to keep vigilant about what the people we elect are doing. We also have the right and ability to let those know outside of our districts what we think. I recently watched a video clip from a woman that is in a position of power denouncing people displaying the American Flag. That is the type of activity that is dangerous and divisive. Well, that lady can eat a shit sandwich as far as I am concerned. I post the Pledge of Allegiance every day on bookface, in general with some sort of motorcycle or gun type of theme. I do that because here at TRMI, TG, and TGW, we sure as hell love the Bill of Rights and the Flag that those represent. I enjoy my free speech and press, religion, right to own weapons, and rights On the temperature note, make against tyrannical overreach. sure to keep yourself safe when We are also opposed to over riding in high heat conditions. stretched and overspending Not only will the temperature government, such as the newly get ya, but the road can also accepted “pork barrel” spending make a mockery of your riding that has been approved for the plans. It seems that with the Transportation Bill. Our good early excessive heat this year, friend Eric Ross is the MRF highway blowouts have been Iowa guy that posted on that more prevalent as well. I have very Facebook page about such run across a couple of these actions that after a 10-year in my life unexpectedly, and hiatus of such practices, our luckily saw them before a lawmakers are bringing back catastrophe struck, but they are this excessive special interest a real thing, and one that has spending. Not that excessive the potential to ruin a day or a spending in this administration life. Keep your eyes on the road is new, but holy cow, excessive ahead and always be scanning inflation is going to be a thing for danger. Another major of the future, possibly for the portion of hot summer riding is rest of our lives. Another to always stay hydrated, with thing that our government has non-alcoholic beverages. I like is special transportation groups that are making laws and to have a beer just like many people do, but when it is hot recommendations for anything on the roadways, including out, throw back a bottle, a glass, a mug, a cup, or a few gulps of water from a hose to keep you hydrated. Ride safe, our two and three wheeled chosen forms of transportation. Without any of the riding community represented, these ride often, rinse, and then repeat! jokers are making recommendations for the transportation industry that grossly impact riders, without riders being represented. That is ridiculous at best, and on the same plane of reality as having an anti-gun, anti-freedom, POS Left to right we have Dan Matzdorff, Pete Leehey, appointed to head Biden’s “AFT”. The times of sitting back and doing nothing are over. We must stand up and To be able to keep riding freely, we need to keep vigilant Jon “Ginger” Jansen, Steph Seekins, make our voices heard! We need to make sure that the about what the people we elect are doing. Weand also Cam have Leehey. These folks are THE Biker Lawyers with people running this shit show do in fact work for us! God offices both here in Iowa at 425 2nd St SE #1250, Bless America! I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401, and up north at 17800 one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice Excelsior Blvd, Minnetonka, Minnesota 55345. This for all. award-winning group can help you with your legal Vernon needs anywhere in the Midwest, and can be found Quote of the Month: “Trust in God and keep your powder dry” Oliver Cromwell at www.thebikerlawyers.com or 877-209-9452 Hey folks, we have reached the hhalfway alfw al fway fw fwa ay point of the year. Crazy shit huh? h? H How ow in the hell is the year 2021 past th the he top of the hill and rolling downward waard ward r rapidly? I don’t really know how w it happened, other than spring was a as sort of non-existent, cooler than what I remember as normal, coupled with some light levels of rainfall, so there was not nearly as much riding going on for a spring ng time riding season. Then all of tthe he he sudden, WHAM, summer showed ed up like a Baby Ruth in the swimming pool! We went from frosted cornfields in the mornings to over-the-top heat and humidity by 7 AM. Oh well, we cannot change the weather, only roll with the forecast.

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From the condition of the windshields and front ends of the bikes, summer (or as Iowans better know it, “Humid Bug Season”) is upon us. How can there be so many bugs in my space on one ride? You don’t realize how disgusting the bikes get until it’s time for the next outing. I’ve never been one of those “Let’s clean the bikes when we get home” type but more of a “Let’s take a nap and let the crud bake on in the hot garage until the fleeting cleaning thought passes into forgetfulness” type. The other night I was out watching the dog take hot laps in the yard, protecting us from the invading hordes of squirrels and rabbits that would try to breach the perimeter of his kingdom and I remembered I had a turn signal out. I thought it would probably be a good thing to change bulbs as the plan was for a ride the next day and before that thought too was allocated to the aforementioned sea of forgetfulness. Upon inspection I wasn’t sure whether to use a scraper or chisel to remove the bug-encrusted lens cover. I think JB Weld is really bug guts in a tube. It seemed like maybe I should also tackle the rest of mine and Karla’s bikes and clean the rest of those pesky critters off. As I’m sure that most of you not in the obsessive-compulsive class have experienced, the longer they are on your bike the harder they are to remove. I think they start to absorb into the paint while turning to bug cement. Forget the Bug Be Gone, slide right off stuff; give me the Bug Jackhammer in a can.

enough pain to ever fill it”. While hopefully the majority of us aren’t running around killing people, we all You ever notice how sins, the bad things we do and habits pretty much fit the we stumble into or sometimes willingly dive into, are like bug guts: the longer you leave them on you the harder they rest of Ringo’s criteria. We try to fill that hole are to remove. We get lazy and figure those things aren’t that bad - yet. I can wait to take care of that until sometime with all kinds of things when in reality the only thing that will fill that hole is Jesus. in the future while little by little they are entrenching In the book of John, Jesus stated, “I am the resurrection and themselves into our very being. Like termites in the wall of the shop. While we all experience this on an individual basis the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though our country as a whole is buried to its eyebrows in bug guts. they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die”. We think of the resurrection as an event but the reality Who would have thought so many years ago that George Orwell would show himself to be such a prophet? His ideas is that Jesus was and is the resurrection, and the life. Only he can fill that empty hole we all have. So individually and of everything being upside down, the reversal and turning everything into their opposites, and all animals are equal but corporately we have to awake and clean those bugs off our some animals are more equal than others is so indicative of lives and thinking. The answer is that our freedom and the state we are in today. Country-wise we are desperately our identity are in Jesus alone, not in some manufactured wokeness of the day. I’m so thankful that no pain of the past in need of another Great Spiritual Awakening. Instead, or problems of the present can remove us from the Lord. we are experiencing what Roger Kimball calls a “Great God’s love opens doors to the future. Awokening”. The more woke we get the less awake we are. The abortion holocaust masquerading as reproductive Blessings, Mark rights, Critical Race Theory, thinking racism is combated by racism, masked-up Lemmings, the continual restrictions Mark and Karla Cornick are with the Christian and elimination of rights, riots and the destruction and Motorcyclists Association. Find out more about CMA and revision of history to fit an agenda are just a few of the myriad of bug guts we have accumulated as a country. In the God’s plan for you at www.cma.org natural world there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight, or at least not a good end. Individually and personally we experience these things also. I can’t help but think of the scene in one of my all-timefavorite movies Tombstone where Wyatt asks Doc, “What makes a man like Ringo do the things he does?” Doc says it’s because “He has this great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough or inflict 6 - TRMI JULY 2021

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draped with creamy mozzarella cheese. Encompassing the remainder of his plate was side of perfectly cooked, crispy shoestring French fries. I had several options rolling around in my head, but quickly settled on the French dip. When my plate arrived, it was overloaded with a fresh hoagie bun piled high with slow roasted marinated beef, melty Swiss cheese, and a piping hot bowl of au jus for dipping. I also had a side of those deliciously ﬂuﬀy on the inside, crisp and salty on the outside French fries to round out my plate.

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Now, I wish I could say that we tried at least one of those delicious deserts we saw upon entering Ski’s, but alas, we had no room for another bite. Our meals were generous portions of deliciousness…and we left nothing behind. As soon as we had ﬁnished our plates were removed from the table, and the door was even opened for us when we left.

127 W 5th Street Carroll, Iowa 51401 (712) 792-8579 Saturday, Monday – Wednesday 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM The operational organization of this restaurant is just as impressive as the food it serves. You see, it quickly became Thursday and Friday 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM obvious to us that this establishment is truly a “family run” business. Two young girls and a young Placed on West 5th Street, quietly man had their specific jobs, and though wedged between retail therapy they were each doing independent things joints sits a little place called Ski’s, when their services were not required, and it just may be the best kept they never missed a beat when it was secret in downtown Carroll. When their turn to step in and complete their we hopped off the bike and headed duties. The youngest helping mom at for the door, we were definitely the counter and with meal service, the not expecting the royal treatment young man alerting mom to incoming when we rolled into a small-town customers, the older girl tending sandwich shop, but is just what we to tables and opening the doors for got. customers, and last but not least, dad in the back cooking up those delightful When we crossed the threshold, vittles. We were both impressed not we were promptly greeted at the only with the front counter, after a quick hoot food, but with from a nice young man seated in the smoothness the dining area. Our waitress and of their her daughter (I am guessing she is operation and around the 6-year mark…give or with how each take a little) were ready to attend of the family to our hunger pangs. We first noticed that for a small shop, members was there sure were a few “uptown” choices on both the regular contributing to and dessert menus. Everything from panini’s to wraps, the success of loaded salads to flatbreads and rice bowls. Homemade the business. cheesecakes and crème Brule. Let’s be sure we don’t forget Kudos to you, the daily specials or the juicy burger menu. mom and dad, for raising them At this point I am sure that you are wondering how we right! were able to make a choice and move on. Well, let me tell you, when you are standing smack dab in the middle of an Whenever amazing scent station with your belly grumbling…you just you are in the point your finger at the menu, and order. As soon as we Carroll area, be had made our choices, our two helpful ladies were off to sure to stop by the kitchen to turn in our requests. Before we knew it, yet Ski’s for some another helpful young lady had brought us utensils and the stellar grub and like n anticipation of our meals’ arrivals. Shortly after, our outstanding service. And be sure to tell them Thunder Roads plates were presented by our original waitresses. Magazine of Iowa sent you! Vernon ended up ordering the special of the day, which Melanie J Schwarte during our visit happened to be the Bruschetta Burger on toasted ciabatta bun. A generous scoop of fresh and If you have a WRTE location for us to visit, please let me delicious bruschetta covered the juicy, perfectly cooked beef patty, and as if that wasn’t enough, the whole thing was know at Melanie@thunderroadsiowa.com 22 - TRMI JULY 2021

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Thunder Roads Magazine of Iowa is pleased to introduce Mr. Mike Metzger of Johnston. Mike serves an Information Technology Specialist for American Equity Insurance.

Army. His father was aboard the USS Enterprise as part of the US Navy during Vietnam. He recently lost an uncle who served in Vietnam in the Army. And, another uncle recently retired from the Veterans Administration after 20 years, following his retirement from the Air Force after a 20+ year career.

Mike served in the United States Army National Guard from 1998 to 2004. Attaining the rank of E-5, Sergeant Metzger began his career with the 234th Signal Battalion out of Cedar Rapids, IA. He then transferred to Texas where he was deployed with Stabilization Force 7 to Bosnia. Mike was a Telecommunication Specialist with the 249 Signal Battalion 49th Armored Division from February to September of 2000.

Sergeant Metzger continues serving today, representing Iowa’s 39-1 chapter of the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association as an Executive Oﬃcer. Their Patriot Ride occurred on Saturday, June 12th. Mike has set a goal to attend every Patriot ride in Iowa with each section of the CVMA except one which he has a scheduling conﬂict with.

Upon his return to Iowa, Sergeant Metzger rejoined the 234th Signal Battalion. They were activated to serve in Iraq from June of 2003 to May of 2004. He was part of the Node Center 98 in Camp Ironhorse in Tikrit, Iraq. Mike doesn’t recall any speciﬁc unusual stories from his time in the Army, but rather just an overwhelming sense of pride to have served his country and be deployed with his brothers and sisters.

In addition, Mike felt honored to serve as an urn bearer for the Unclaimed Veterans mass burial which occurred June 18th at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery. This burial honored 7 veterans and 4 spouses of veterans who had no living relatives.

Sergeant Metzger informed me all veterans are welcome to join the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association. Those who served during combat are regular members. If one did not see combat, they offer a support membership. A self-described long-haired rebel in high school, Mike And for those spouses who serve in their own unique way had always dreamt of owning a Harley Davidson. In while their other half is in combat, the CVMA also offers 2009, he began his motorcycle ownership with a 2005 an auxiliary group. At this time, there are 5 full chapters Yamaha V-Star Custom. As he saved his pennies, Sergeant in Iowa with 2 sub-chapters attempting to attain full Metzger’s dreams came true when Zylstra Harley in Ames affiliation. found him his 100th Anniversary Edition HD Road Glide Silver and Black! He lucked out when he found a tour Mike and his beautiful wife Rebecca reside in Johnston, pack with the same paint scheme up north and states, “I Iowa with their two amazing children, Nathan (19) and pretty much stole that tour pack.” He has since upgraded Savannah (17). From all of us at TRMI Mr. Metzger, the stereo and keeps replacing blown speakers due to his thank you for your service and continue to be “Always middle age hearing loss. I think most of us old veterans Ready, Always There!” have a bit of that! Mike comes from a family of servitude. His grandfather Shane OMalley served our nation during World War II in the United States 24 - TRMI JULY 2021

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The preacher asked God, “Why didn’t you and relaxing journey with us today.”” save me?” God replied, “Fool, I sent you two boats!” As the mother began to smile, the child added, “For those of you who Teacher: “If I gave you 2 cats and another 2 cats and another are pissed off about the two hourr 2, how many would you have?” Johnny: “Seven.” Teacher: delay, please see the bitch in the kitchen.” hen en.” .” “No, listen carefully... If I gave you two cats, and another two cats and another two, how many would you have?” Johnny: Mahatma Gandhi often walked barefoot are refo foot fo ot “Seven.” Teacher: “Let me put it to you differently. If I which produced an impressive sett off gave you two apples, and another two apples and another callouses on his feet. He also ate very little, two, how many would you have?” Johnny: “Six.” Teacher: making him rather frail and with his odd diet he often “Good. Now if I gave you two cats, and another two cats and suffered from bad breath. This made him a super calloused another two, how many would you have?” Johnny: “Seven!” fragile mystic hexed with halitosis. Teacher: “Johnny, where in the heck do you get seven from?!” Johnny: “Because I’ve already got a freaking cat!” Officer: “Madam, swimming is prohibited in this lake.” Lady: “Why didn’t you tell me when I was removing my There was this guy at a bar, just looking at his drink. He stays clothes?” Officer: “Well, that’s not prohibited.” like that for a half hour. Then a big trouble making truck driver steps next to him, takes the drink from the guy, & just At the doctor’s office, Tom was getting a check-up. “I have drinks it all down. The poor man starts crying. The truck good news and bad news,” says the doctor. “The good news driver says, “Come on man, I was just joking. Here, I’ll buy is you have 24 hours left to live.” Tom replies, “That’s the you another drink. I just can’t stand to see a man cry.” “No, good news?!” Then the doctor says, “The bad news is I it’s not that,” the man replies, wiping his tears, “This day is should have told you that yesterday.” the worst of my life. First, I oversleep & I go in late to my office. My outraged boss fires me. When I leave the building How do you make holy water? to go to my car, I find out it was stolen. The police say they Boil the hell out of it. can do nothing. I get a cab to go home, & when I get out, I remember I left my wallet. The cab driver just drives away. During an impassioned sermon about death and final I go inside my house where I find my wife in bed with the judgement, the pastor said forcefully, “Each member of this gardener. I leave my home, come to this bar, & just when I church is going to die and face judgement.” Glancing down was thinking about putting an end to my life, you show up at the front pew, he noticed a man with a big smile on his & drink my poison.” face. The minister repeated his point louder. “Each member of this church is going to die and face judgement!” The man If you have 13 apples in one hand and 10 oranges in the nodded and smiled even more. This really got the preacher other, what do you have? Big hands. wound up. He pounded the pulpit emphatically when he came to the ultimatum: “Each member of this church is In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth... going to die and face judgement!!!” Though everyone else After that, everything else was made in China. in the congregation was looking somber, the man in front continued to smile. Finally the preacher stepped off the A few days after Christmas, a mother was working in the platform, stood in front of the man and shouted, “I said each kitchen listening to her young son playing with his new member of this church is going to die!” The man grinned electric train in the living room. She heard the train stop from ear to ear. 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his July 4th anniversary might be the most important celebration that we have had for a very long time.

This is How Freedom Should Look!

have said this time after time. I have had a great deal of head trauma over the course of my life, so from time to time, I may come oﬀ as a bit discombobulated, which is just a big word, like gymnasium, but I do mean well and some of the beliefs I have are usually pretty spot on and many like-minded, reasonable people seem to agree or at least be on the same page. We can call the previous my small disclaimer to start this article just in case you are one of the rare people that don’t see that the madness I proclaim is indeed spot on. So with that said let’s get my monthly obligation to the boss of bosses at Thunder Roads Iowa under way shall we. By the way, he is a rather benevolent boss. One time in a small town dive bar, he bought me a beer. I mean, it was his wife that paid, but he was there and I am pretty certain that he signed on to the simple fact that as a long running monthly columnist, I was indeed worthy of a cold beer on a warm summer day as we cranked out a couple of hundred miles all told. You can take it to the bank when I say he is a good boss.

emember last year’s Celebration of our “Freedoms’? You know, we were in the middle of 2 weeks to ﬂatten the curve shit…4 months in. We didn’t get to do shit. But now? It doesn’t matter what higher authority is giving us permission to have a BBQ, a parade, send up some rocket’s red glare or walk around a biker event without your tally wacker getting sunburn. We are done listening to the bullshit and having our freedoms slowly eroded. We are done. We are over it. And it’s time for us to take back what is ours. Freedom to do whatever the hell we want to do.

or some of us, it might be as simple as getting together with friends and family that we haven’t seen in the better part of a year until the restrictions started being lifted. Sitting in the back yard with those uncomfortable camping chairs, overloading a ﬂimsy paper plate with way too much BBQ, potato salad, those secret recipe baked beans we missed so much while piss pounding beer, waiting for it to get dark so we can blow shit up. Dammit, that is awesome.

miss seeing parades. I never thought I would say that but there are certain events that were just a fabric or our lives for years that we suddenly went, we didn’t think we would miss it until it was taken uly happens to hold on to the single most important holi- away. If I don’t wanna go, that is one thing, if you tell me I day of the year. America’s Independence Celebration. can’t go, well then we have an issue…and dammit, I want my parade! Then maybe I’ll come over for a brat and some hat statement from time to time has “tweaked” the baked beans dammit. cackles of certain people, those that believe Christmas maybe is more important or that Easter means a great deal ell, this time last year most of the campgrounds were more. But hear me out. Independence Day is the single either closed or had wicked restrictions in place that most important holiday for one single reason. made zero sense. Being outdoors is one of the single greatest preventions from that damn thing and yet it was taken ithout this holiday, chances are you would NOT away. Tried to buy a camper later? Yea, people are saying be able to observe or celebrate whatever holiday is screw this; I am going to the woods. more important to YOU in the manner that YOU see fit. We have the freedom to worship or even NOT worship in y favorite was how so many bike events were unable any manner we see fit because some long hairs, (Whigs) to take place because if there is one thing that bikers gathered at some pubs, taverns, churches, and halls and are rather good at is social distancing! I mean, until it’s said screw you jack wagons, we are doing something bet- evening time and there is a stage and, well, that is freedom ter and something more free. They are the dudes that set of another level. the tone to how we live and breathe to this day. Tell me these freedom fighters wouldn’t all have been bikers! ikes are going to pile their ways into bike rallies this year, that is for sure. Events that promise impresithout that event none of the rest would be like they sive lineups of bands, and opportunities to hang out with are. They set the blueprint that we enjoy today; of friends you haven’t seen in ages. No other event truly course we are screwing up with every passing month it personifies what it’s like to be free like a genuine biker seems, but even broken it can be fixed. rally. I am sure there are great rallies in other states that

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are wild, crazy and full of freedom, but Iowa rallies truly say, We are Free.

don’t care in which manner you celebrate the founding of our country, be it on a bike, in a camper chair, on a boat, in a camper, at a parade or laying on your ass watching a race on TV, you see, that is the glorious thing about this whole deal, because of that event, you can do what you want, observe any holiday in any manner you see ﬁt and still enjoy being an American, now that some freedoms are returning, it’s up to all of us to see that they don’t try to pull that shit on us ever again.

appy Birthday America! You glorious bastard that I love so damn much…Rev it up, blow it up, serve it up, and celebrate it all damn month and save me a beer! Todd “Crash” Davis

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Little-Known Facts About the Declaration of Independence They may not be so ‘self-evident’ The purpose of the Declaration of Independence is as clear as its name — to state why the 13 colonies had the right to break political ties with Great Britain and form their own government. But this move to independence didn’t happen overnight. Read these 16 facts about the origins of the Declaration of Independence and then test your knowledge! 1) For some colonists, the desire to separate from Britain had been brewing for years. Their aspirations were formally expressed by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia on June 7, 1776, when he presented a resolution to the Second Continental Congress at the State House in Philadelphia stating that the colonies “are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.” Lee’s call to dissolve political ties with Britain, which became known as the Lee Resolution, set the stage for the declaration. Learn more. 2) Not all members of the Continental Congress were ready to accept the Lee Resolution. They postponed voting on it for several weeks, but in the meantime, they appointed five men to draft a document explaining why the colonies believed they had the right to form their own government. The Committee of Five consisted of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman. Learn more. 3) The committee appointed John Adams and Thomas Jefferson to write the original draft of what later became known as the Declaration of Independence. In a letter many years later, in 1822, Adams remembered that he insisted Jefferson take the lead. Why? According to Adams, Jefferson was from Virginia, one of the most important colonies; Jefferson was better liked; and Jefferson had more talent as a writer. Adams praised Jefferson’s other documents as having a “peculiar felicity of expression.” Learn more. 4) Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Creating the draft reportedly took him just a day or two. Other members of the Committee of Five made a few changes, but Jefferson remained the main author. Learn more. 5) Jefferson’s draft drew on the language and ideas of several other documents, including the Virginia Declaration of Rights and his own version of a Virginia constitution. His opening words asserted a common idea among European Enlightenment thinkers of the time: that “all men are created equal.” The phrase was later used to advocate for women’s right to vote and civil rights for African Americans. Learn more about the interpretation of “all men” at the time. 6) A famous 1818 painting by John Trumbull depicts the presentation of the draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress by the Committee of Five on June 28. Learn more. 7) The Continental Congress formally assembled again on July 1 to consider the Lee Resolution for independence. The next day, 12 colonies voted in favor (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia). The 13th, New York, abstained at the time but declared its support for independence a week later. Learn more. Thun Th under un ndeer Ro Road Roads adss Magazine ad Maga Ma gazi zine ne of of IIo Iowa owa on on Facebook Face Fa cebo bo ook

8) In a letter to his wife, John Adams shared the news that the Continental Congress had declared independence from Britain. He wrote that the event should be forever celebrated as a national holiday with parades, games, and “Bonfires and Illuminations.” His words: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.” Learn more. 9) For the next two days, members of the Continental Congress discussed and modified Jefferson’s draft. They officially adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 — the day we recognize as our Independence Day. It became a federal national holiday in 1941. Learn more. 10) About 200 prints of the Declaration, called broadside editions, are believed to have been produced by printer John Dunlap on the night of July 4, 1776 (26 remain today). Copies were shared the following morning. The Pennsylvania Evening Post carried the full text on its front page on July 6. Learn more. 11) The Declaration of Independence was first read aloud in public on July 8, 1776, by Col. John Nixon outside the State House in Philadelphia. Bells in the city rang in celebration, but it is unlikely that the Liberty Bell (then known as the State House bell) tolled that day because the State House steeple was under repair. Learn more. 12) There is no singular authoritative copy of the Declaration of Independence. Congress ordered the iconic parchment version most Americans and historians recognize as “the” Declaration of Independence to be created on July 19, 1776. When the document was finished, it was signed by 56 members of the Continental Congress. Learn more about the other copies. 13) John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress, was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, on Aug. 2, 1776. The delegates then added their signatures in the order of their states’ locations — north to south, New Hampshire to Georgia. The final signature came from Thomas McKean at least a year later. Learn more. 14) Benjamin Franklin, at 70 years old, was the oldest signer. Two of the signers were 26 at the time: Edward Rutledge and Thomas Lynch Jr., both representing South Carolina. Born Aug. 5, 1749, Lynch was the youngest signer of the declaration. Learn more. 15) After the signing ceremony in Philadelphia, the signed parchment version of the Declaration of Independence was moved often — sometimes to protect it during war, other times to preserve or display it. On Dec. 13, 1952, the Declaration of Independence was formally transferred to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., where it has remained. Learn more. 16) Three founding fathers died on the Fourth of July. Our fifth president, James Monroe, died on July 4, 1831. And our second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died within a few hours of each other on July 4, 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. From www.livingfacts.org

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Back Forty Bike Night at the Barn Des Moines (2nd Wednesday May-September) Bea’s Place Baxter Cruise Night Britt (3rd Wed Jul-Sep) The OP Clear LakePete & Shorty’s Clarksville The Sports Page Mason City (Every other starts May 26th) Supper Rides Harley-Davidson of Carroll (,6-16, 7-21) Dinner Rides Zylstra Harley-Davidson Ames

Thursday Edwards Bikes on the Hundred Block Council Bluﬀs (3rd Thursday) Roar Into Harlan (3rd Thursdays) Stumpy’s Bar & Grill Duncombe Wild Hogs Saloon & Eatery Walford (3rd Thursday) Metro HD Cedar Rapids (2nd Thursday May-Sep) Harley-Davidson of Carroll (6-10, 7-8) East of Omaha Bike Night Griswold (1st Thurs May-Aug)

Viking Customs Bike Night Atlantic (Last Sat Apr-Sep) Happenings Bar Steamboat Rock (3rd Saturday May-Sep)

Sunday Just 1 More Jamaica (Starting in May) Road Rage Fun Run at The Exchange Avoca (4th Sunday May-Sep) The Tama Pump (Sunday June-September) St Charles Bike Night The Talk Shop Lounge St Charles (2nd Sunday except Aug) This list is what we have found and what has been submitted. Before heading to any event, please check weather and make sure the event is not cancelled. Not responsible for misprints and typos. If you have any other events to list, please email vernon@thunderroadsiowa.com

Friday Centerville Bike Nights (4th Friday May-Aug) R Place Pub & Pizza Kelley (2nd Friday May-Sep) Friday Night Bikes Prairie City Bike Night (3rd Friday Apr-Sep) Bondurant Bike Night at the Rails (4th Friday Apr-Sep) Hawk Heaven Tavern Altoona (1st Friday May-Aug) Pella Bike Night (2nd Friday May-Sep) American Legion Post 232 Polk City (2nd Fri May-Sep) Bloodline Irish Pub Greenﬁeld (Last Friday) Thunder Nites Newton (2nd Friday Jul-Sep) Mean Machine Grub Run Elkhart (1st Friday)

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