About

The American Legion Riders of Orange County, NY (“OC Legion Riders”) are a part of the Orange County American Legion Family, under the guidance of the Orange County American Legion (“OC Legion”) that – in collaboration with other veteran-related motorcycle, veteran and community service organizations – plans, coordinates, and conducts events and activities to promote youth patriotism and community service as well as improve the public visibility and public support of the Orange County American Legion as a veteran and community service organization.

OC Legion Rider fundraising activities support the Hudson Valley Honor Flight (HVHF) Youth Guardian Program, which the OC Legion Riders coordinate. In partnership with the OC Legion, HVHF, and other organizations, the OC Legion helps identify, vet, and fund high school seniors and young veterans to escort Vietnam-era and other veterans on Honor Flights to see the monuments at our National Capital in their honor and receive a long deserved “welcome home.”

In addition to giving these youth a unique, first-hand opportunity and deeper appreciation of the meaning and value of patriotism and service, it helps connect incoming and outgoing generations of Americans and pass the baton of leadership from one to the next.

Donations in support of this cause are welcome in two ways:

1) Direct sponsorship of a specifically identified youth guardian. The sponsor provides a $500 check, made out to “Hudson Valley Honor Flight” and including the name of the youth guardian in the memo portion of the check, to the HVHF.

2) The second is a general donation in any amount to the OC Legion Riders, for youth guardians with no specified sponsor. These will come either through OC Legion Rider fundraising events and activities or by donations in the form of checks made out to “American Legion Riders Post 151” and including “youth guardian” in the memo portion of the check, sent to: Orange County American Legion Riders, American Legion Post 151, P.O. Box 516, Middletown, NY 10940.

In addition, the OC Legion Riders support the National Service Ride Project, partnered with the Orange County Youth Bureau. In support of New York State's Seal of Civic Readiness, the project is and adaptive, community-based initiative to help mobilize youth to better themselves, their community, and their country through service-learning - at assemblies, social studies and health classrooms, volunteer fairs, a virtual volunteer portal, etc. - as an integral part of their education and the school curriculum.

The OC Legion Riders meet at 7:00pm the first Wednesday of the month at American Legion Post 151 in Middletown, NY.

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