Here’s a big Merry Christmas to everybody with this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast. We're dropping in on quite an experience Overdrive Executive Editor Alex Lockie had just a little more than a week ago at the Danbury, Connecticut, stop on the Wreaths Across America convoy tour from Maine down to Arlington National Cemetery for the big central wreath-laying event. It's but one among thousands around the country at veterans’ cemeteries that pay respect to those who’ve served the nation.
As regular readers may well remember from his reporting last week, Lockie there met Hampton Roads Moving and Storage owner-operator Steven Meyer and his 1998 Freightliner FLD, pulling a custom wrapped Kentucky trailer of his own design and dedicated to honoring distinct individuals whose histories encompass well more than the past 150 years of U.S. history.
Meyer walks listeners from left to right through all five of the featured men and women on the trailer in the podcast.
Together, through Meyer's narration, their distinctions tell a story of achievement, of sacrifice, and ultimately of elemental things about human nature. For both men in the moment, as you'll hear in the podcast, it all adds up to a measure of hope for the future of humanity.
