INTERVIEW – MIKE WOLFF – Rolling Thunder Board member and 2003 Iraq War veteran – discussed Rolling Thunder to Mark Final Memorial Day Event This Weekend.

• Rolling Thunder makes last ride Sunday. The annual roar of motorcycles over Memorial Day weekend will soon be a memory. This year’s Rolling Thunder national rally, the 31st, will be its last. Event founder Artie Muller made the announcement in December, saying rising costs and issues with Pentagon police led to the decision. “It has been a hard decision to make,” Muller wrote in a letter sent. “After much discussion and thought over the last six months, Rolling Thunder National Officers have concluded to end our 32-year annual D.C. Memorial weekend event.” Since 1988, the roar of motorcycles has been a welcome tradition in the D.C. area, as hundreds of thousands of bikes arrive to honor military service members. The annual ride began as a way to draw attention to Vietnam veterans being held as prisoners of war or missing in action, and grew to more than half a million participants the last few years. Bikers rallied at the Pentagon and headed into D.C. to visit the Vietnam Memorial.