Local Honor Guard participates in MIAP ceremony

Members of the Ritzville VFW and American Legion Honor Guard participated in the Missing in America Project (MIAP)/Forgotten Heroes Ride when it stopped at Love’s Travel Stop on Aug. 30.

Love’s was one of many stops for the MIAP Forgotten Heroes Ride, which saw veteran riders from across the state converge to Ritzville before they rode 50 miles to the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake.

According to the MIAP website, the program’s purpose is to locate, identify and inter the unclaimed cremated remains of American veterans through the joint efforts of private, state and federal...