further info on parade

[sporty2go]

For those who need more info...when (or if) you purchase your ticket package, you will be given the opportunity of having your name put in a fish bowl(?) to participate in a random(?) drawing for 5,000 spots in the parade.You may also get in the parade by being one of 200 fundraisers who have obtained $5,300 (strange number) in paid donations by July 15th. I guess the 201st doesn't get in either. Of course, H.D. execs, employees, and Jay Leno are automatically included. Those of us who bought the bikes, the accessories, the parts, the clothes, rode in the MDA poker runs, and gave our time, our money, and donations to H.D. and MDA over the years are not. I attended the 90th and 95th celebrations along with my parents and my wife and, along with the 10's of thousands of riders and spectators, shared with them all the collective thrills and memories of participating in the awesome spectacle of the parades. Yes, there are logistic problems, but H.D., the city of Milwaukee, and the state of Wisconsin overcame them and afforded us all the opportunity to become a part of those historic moments. I would hope that for a few hours, on ONE given Saturday, they would see fit to let US ALL experience this "once in a century" thrill to last us the rest of our lives