Home Base Program

Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program is pleased to announce their first ever Ride for Our Heroes motorcycle event on September 24, 2011.

The Ride for Our Heroes is a true motorcycle enthusiast event honoring our Nation’s service members, veterans and their families while raising needed funds for the Home Base Program. Funds raised for the Home Base Program will provide clinical care to the many veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan affected by combat stress and/or traumatic brain injuries as well as counseling support to their families.

The Ride features starting points from locations throughout New England and will kick off with an opening ceremony and acknowledgement of local military heroes. The Ride concludes with a Rider Appreciation Party at Manchester Harley-Davidson in Manchester, New Hampshire for bikers, families, veterans and community supporters and will include live music by the James Montgomery Band featuring the Uptown Horns (from the Rolling Stones and J. Geils Band) and special guest Ryan Brooks Kelly, photo ops with Red Sox championship trophies, family activities and much more! For those that do not ride, they can still purchase a ticket to the after-party only.

At the Boston Tattoo Convention, we will be there registering riders along with selling raffle tickets for a custom-built Home Base Dirico motorcycle, which is signed by Steven Tyler. Raffle tickets will be available for only $10, with a minimum purchase of 2 tickets required.

All the proceeds from this event benefit the Home Base Program. The Home Base Program is the first non-profit partnership in the nation that forms a multidisciplinary program for service members, veterans and their families by combining efforts in combat stress and traumatic brain injury clinical treatment, family support, education, outreach and biomedical research into one cohesive program. The Home Base Program serves New England by identifying, motivating and treating service members, veterans and families affected by the invisible wounds of war – combat stress and traumatic brain injury. It also strives to be a leader in finding and implementing new treatments for PTSD and TBI.

www.homebaseprogram.org/rideforourheroes