Marine Corporal Danny Chen lost his life while serving in Afghanistan, leaving behind a final wish to rest in his small hometown of Millfield, Montana. He wanted to be buried next to his father, Michael, who had passed away in a motorcycle accident years earlier. When severe winter storms grounded military transport out of Fort Carson in Colorado, officials informed his grieving mother, Sarah, that her son would be delayed for weeks. Desperate to have her child home for Christmas, Sarah shared her heartbreak online with a support group. Within six hours, the Rolling Thunder motorcycle club organized an impossible rescue mission.
When the club arrived at the military base, the commander warned chapter president Big Jake about the extreme danger of traveling through whiteout conditions and closed mountain passes. Jake and his group of forty seven veterans, ranging in age from twenty three to seventy four, politely refused to leave without the fallen hero. They successfully claimed the flag draped casket and secured it inside a custom motorcycle hearse. The riders then began their brutal journey through eighteen degree weather, rotating positions every fifty miles to prevent freezing in the harsh wind.
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