Memorial Day: Time for 12th-annual Thunder Rolls in Belleville

David C. Brown Funeral Home and the Brown Family Center are sponsoring the 12th-annual Motorcycle Ride and Memorial Day Service to honor veterans.
On Monday, motorcyclists will start registering at 11 a.m. for the 27.8-mile ride at Wayne County Community College, 9555 Haggerty Road in Van Buren Township, north of I-94.
The riders will pay $10 per person, which all will go to help veterans and their families. Each paying rider will receive a commemorative pin.
The motorcycle ride, with police assistance, begins at 1 p.m. Several hundred bikes are expected to take part.
Throughout the years people have waited along the route to applaud the bikers and wave American flags at them.
The motorcycles, with patriotic flags flying, will go south on Haggerty road to Harris Road, west to Martinsville and then south to Willis Road. They will take Willis west to Sumpter Road and then head south on Sumpter to Oakville Waltz Road and head west on Oakville Waltz to Rawsonville Road, which they will take north to West Huron River Drive and then east into the City of Belleville and High Street.
When the motorcycle contingent gets to the Veteran’s Memorial in Horizon Park, at about 2-2:30 p.m., the Memorial Day service will begin.
Brown Funeral Home and Family Center is sponsoring the event.
There will be speakers, prayers, music, a 21-gun salute, and refreshments. The names of local veterans who have died since last year’s ceremony will be called out and a bell tolled for each name.