Motorcycle Club Sees the Sights and Spreads Its Message

Call it a boys' week out.

Uncle Sam's Avengers Motorcycle Club is an organization comprised of current or honorably discharged members of the U.S. armed forces and officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians. On Friday, the group returned from a six-day, 2,000-mile motorcycle ride to six cities in six states. The goal of the trip, according to a club statement, was to spread goodwill.

Another purpose for the journey is the reason behind the club's existence: to preserve the American way of life and honor "those who fought before."

On the itinerary for the trip were seeing a major league baseball game in Pittsburgh, visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, checking out the Harley Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, sightseeing in Chicago, traveling to the Louisville Slugger Museum in Kentucky.

The sixth stop turned out to be a waystation, the club reported: The riders visited Wheeling, W. Va., to avoid before heading back to New Jersey.

Uncle Sam's Avengers was founded in 2009, respectively, by its president and vice president: Danny Bendas, a Navy vet who is a Par-Troy police sergeant, and Parsippany Police patrolman Ted "The Tank" Anderson, who served as an Army infantryman.

In all, the group has 20 members. Another chapter of the Avengers exists in New York and another one will be established soon in North Carolina.

The group's next project is organizing its new home, an old firehouse it is leasing in Linden.

Then, the Avengers will prepare for a it is hosting with the Parsippany Patrolmen's Benefit Association Local 131 to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project and Parsippany resident Amy Crolle, who was diagnosed with brain cancer shortly after giving birth to twins.

The event will take place at the Center at 33 Baldwin Road.