D.C. The noise of their engines makes the pavement shake. Riders aim video cameras at onlookers as if they were M-16 rifles.
Motorcycle helmets replace boonie hats, while eather vests stand in for flack jackets.
When they reach the Mall, they leave their bikes in the grass and begin to mill. On the steps below the Lincoln Memorial, the rally's organizers exhort the crowd to remember those still missing in Southeast Asia. His audience whistles, claps, hoots. As he speaks, veterans and others cluster on the paths that lead into and out of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. They finger bracelets engraved with the names of soldiers still missing in action.