There’s a cost of $20 per rider and $10 per passenger, and the first 200 registered participants will get a benefit pin and decal. He received the Leatherneck Award for High Shooter in boot camp, four Expert Marksmanship badges, the Purple Heart, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, NATO Medal ISAF Afghanistan, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal with Valor. Chris Bordoni was a rifleman attached to the 1st Battalion 6th Marine Regiment, and served two tours in Afghanistan from 2008 until his injury in January 2012. This year’s ride beneficiary is Heel the Heroes, a non-profit with a mission to “help veterans recover, reclaim, and reconnect to society and families” by arranging for volunteers to raise and train puppies as therapy dogs, and offering therapy dog training to veterans and their companion animals.Ĭpl. The memorial ride has grown from 93 participants in its first year to 240 in its fifth, in 2016. In 20, at the Bordoni family’s request, the group split the proceeds between IPD’s K-9 Unit and the Saratoga WarHorse Foundation. “With our local law enforcement and first responders supporting us, it has become the premiere ride,” with ride participants coming from motorcycle clubs near and far. Allen says he and other participants have continued the tradition of the annual memorial ride. Marines salute riders at the 3rd annual Bordoni Memorial Ride in 2014. The first three rides donated proceeds to the New York Patriot Guard Help on the Homefront program, a volunteer outreach group providing support to veterans, families of deployed service members, and Gold Star families. Allen, a local motorcyclist who was a newly minted Ride Captain of the Patriot Guard Riders at the time. Bordoni and also give something back,” according to Gary C. Bordoni, and “After getting to know the family, a group of us talked about putting a ride together that could honor Cpl. The Patriot Guard Riders also provided a flag line outside the calling hours and funeral service for Cpl. The route was flanked by hundreds of Central New York residents paying their respects, and several fire departments along the route displayed American flags. Bordoni was critically injured in a suicide bomber attack just weeks before he was to return home from his tour of duty in Afghanistan, and succumbed to his injuries several weeks later. A volunteer corps of Patriot Guard Riders escorted a motorcade from Syracuse’s Hancock International Airport to bring him home, along with dozens of police vehicles. 14850 file photo.Ī 2008 graduate of Ithaca High School, Cpl. Chris Bordoni’s body home from Hancock International Airport in Syracuse in April 2012.
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