Bikers trek across East Central Illinois as a tribute to victims
The name of Rick Crippin's son is painted carefully on the green and black motorcycle he rode in a Sept. 11 memorial on Sunday – Sgt. Joshua T. Crippin.
"It's my way of feeling like I helped him," the elder Crippin said of his son, who served in Iraq as part of the National Guard.
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