{"id":467747,"date":"2021-05-03T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T19:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=467747"},"modified":"2021-05-03T15:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T19:05:52","slug":"biden-administration-blasted-for-ending-vets-30-year-old-memorial-day-rolling-thunder-motorcycle-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-blasted-for-ending-vets-30-year-old-memorial-day-rolling-thunder-motorcycle-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Blasted For Ending Vets\u2019 30-Year-Old Memorial Day \u2018Rolling Thunder\u2019 Motorcycle Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-blasted-for-ending-vets-30-year-old-memorial-day-rolling-thunder-motorcycle-parade%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=467747&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rt-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A Florida lawmaker is ripping the Biden administration for ending a 30-year tradition by puling a permit that would allow a massive motorcycle Memorial Day parade down Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering, which draws tens of thousands of motorcyclists from across the country each year, stages in a Pentagon parking lot, but the Biden administration has rescinding its annual permit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMemorial Day traditions like Rolling to Remember have been granted permits by every administration, Democrat and Republican, for the past 30 years,\u201d said Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL). \u201cThe Biden Administration\u2019s decision to end this Memorial Day tradition flies in the face of the freedoms that so many have died to protect,\u201d Rep. Mast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/brian-mast-biden-rolling-to-remember-memorial-day\">told<\/a> Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are blessed beyond words to be citizens of the greatest country on Earth and only live free thanks to the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. But sadly right now, in Joe Biden\u2019s America, it is easier to cross the border illegally than it is to get a permit to pay our respects to our nation\u2019s fallen heroes,\u201d Mast said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon blamed COVID-19 for the decision.<\/p>\n<p>A special events section of the Pentagon had approved AMVETS\u2019 permit for Rolling to Remember on March 11, but then revoked it. Last month, Mast \u2014 a 12-year Army veteran who worked as a bomb disposal expert and lost both his legs while deployed in Afghanistan \u2014 wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urging him to \u201cpromptly approve\u201d the permit in April.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter, Mast said the Pentagon approved the permit \u201conly to revoke that approval a week later, citing a \u2018routing error\u2019 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The event is being put at risk by the refusal of the Pentagon to approve the permit in a timely manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mast said Americans enjoy freedom because of the sacrifice of the U.S. military, \u201cbut the Biden Administration seems intent on restricting that freedom, and now, even restricting Memorial Day ceremonies.\u00a0 Preventing a tradition like Rolling to Remember flies in the face of the freedoms that so many have died to protect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AMVETS\u2019 national executive director Joe Chennelly expressed his disappointment with the decision on \u201cFox &#038; Friends First\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur biggest disappointment with the Pentagon\u2019s decision here was that they never gave us an opportunity, despite us asking many times, to be able to present a plan of how we would be able to meet at the Pentagon parking lot outdoors in a safe, responsible way,\u201d Chennelly said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat, traditionally, this event has been all about is our missing in action. We have more than 80,000 Americans who are still missing in action since World War II,\u201d Chennelly said. \u201cWe are committed to still having a central staging area. \u2026 We have a Plan B and a Plan C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plan B is to stage near RFK Stadium, several miles away from Constitution Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida lawmaker is ripping the Biden administration for ending a 30-year tradition by puling a permit that would allow a massive motorcycle Memorial Day parade down Constitution Avenue in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277229,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rt-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Administration Blasted For Ending Vets\u2019 30-Year-Old Memorial Day \u2018Rolling Thunder\u2019 Motorcycle Parade","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/rt-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Administration Blasted For Ending Vets\u2019 30-Year-Old Memorial Day \u2018Rolling Thunder\u2019 Motorcycle Parade","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}