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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Merced County Sheriff's Posse is present connected a cross-country travel from the bosom of California to the nation's capital. The radical has the unsocial grant of marching erstwhile again successful the upcoming 47th Presidential Inaugural Parade.
The radical spent Wednesday day loading up their 12 horses into 2 ample trailers and giving them a due nonstop disconnected earlier they caput eastbound to Washington, D.C.
"They're going successful the absolute champion proscription that you tin get. Climate controlled, the thrust is suspended. They're not jarred around. The horses person their ain small workplace flat truthful to speak, and they're going to spell archetypal class. And it's nonstop from present to Washington, D.C," Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said.
It is the 2nd clip the radical has gone nether Sheriff Vern Warnke, and the 4th clip they person marched successful an inaugural parade.
"What I'm hoping is, fto the folks cognize that adjacent though that we are precise agrarian successful this county, and it speaks volumes that we person an enactment that is the goodwill ambassador for the Sheriff, and yet coming from a small assemblage similar this and doing specified a large voiced thing, this is going to beryllium connected the satellite stage, not conscionable nationally, it's world, and there's satellite leaders watching this," Warnke said.
They're representing not lone Merced County, but the full San Joaquin Valley, carrying flags from different section sheriff's offices arsenic they march on the parade route.
Sheriff Posse Captain Laurette Locke said portion it is simply a agelong journey, and an adjacent longer time erstwhile they get to D.C, it is each worthy it.
"I mean, that's not similar going to the little, you know, homecoming parade successful town. We're going to the large show," she said.
The skipper of the 35-member radical said she's honored to beryllium adjacent a tiny portion of a large time successful the nation's history.
"You look up determination and the president's determination and his family, and the White House, you cognize who does it?" Locke said.
This travel is paid for wholly by donations and with wealth the radical raised done fundraisers. Those who would inactive similar to donate tin sojourn their Facebook leafage to find a nexus to their donation drive.
