Help DFW GMC Dealers “Carry The Load” Memorial Day Weekend

DALLAS - May 16, 2013 - PRLog -- DALLAS, TEXAS (May 8, 2013)… In honor of Carry The Load, DFW GMC Dealers are calling all military – active duty and veterans – and friends and family! DFW GMC Dealers want people to salute a veteran or active duty military hero or first responder (fire, police, medical) by going to the DFW GMC Facebook Page and enteringa “salute.” If you have a story and photo to share about the person you are saluting, DFW GMCDealers will donate an additional $5 if you post it on their Facebook wall. DFW GMC Dealers – a 2013 sponsor of Carry The Load – will donate $5 for every salute and story up to $10,000 from today through May 27, 2013.

To leave a salute, go to www.facebook.com/gmcdfw (for mobile go to www.woobox.com/gjjg28) and click the “Salute!” tab. The salutes will be posted on a special Honor Roll Call. Check back each day to see the salutes.

What is Carry The Load? The non-profit organization was founded in 2011 by two former U.S. Navy SEALs –Clint Bruce and Stephen Holley – to help people celebrate a meaningful Memorial Day. Carry TheLoad holds a 20-hour Memorial Marchover two days to honor veterans, active duty service members, law enforcement officers, firefighters and their families, and to raise funds to support designated beneficiaries.

DFW GMC dealers will also be spotlighting their employees who have “Carried the Load.” Check out GMC DFW dealer’s Facebook page to see their salutes.

Bruce was bothered every Memorial Day by the memory of buddies he would never speak to again. “I couldn’t express my feelings with words, so I put on my boots, loaded my pack and I started walking. With every step, I thought about those buddies I lost. As I walked, a man stopped me and asked, ‘Son, who are you carrying?’ He understood what I couldn’t say. At that moment I knew that other people felt like me, and Carry The Load was born.”

“We’re proud to sponsor Carry The Load,” says Carey Williams of James Wood Decatur Buick-GMC for DFW GMC Dealers. “Our active duty military and veterans, our police and firefighters – they are the true unsung heroes. Dallas-Fort Worth area GMC Dealers know these are the people who carry the load every day for our freedom and our safety. Being a sponsor for Carry The Load is a way of showing we care.”

TheDallas Memorial March will be held Sunday and Monday, May 26-27, at Reverchon Park and Katy Trail. Money is raised by event participants and sponsors with a goal of $1 million. Recipients for2013 are Assist The Officer, Heroes On The Water, Friends of Dallas Fire-Rescue, Tip Of The Spear Foundation and Sons of the Flag Burn Foundation.

The2000-mile, 27-dayCarry The LoadNational Relayleft West Point, NY, on April 30 and will finish in Dallas Memorial Day weekend. The journey honors America’s fallen heroes and their families. Follow the relayon Facebook at https://www.facebook.cosalute onm/CarryTheLoad.

For more information on DFW GMC visit www.facebook.com/GMCDFW.  To donate, register or for more information on Carry The Load, go to http://carrytheload.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ieve.... More information on the National Relay is available at http://carrytheload.org/.

Carry The Load: Who are you carrying?

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Contact:Jo Trizila, TrizCom Inc., jo@TrizCom.com, Office: 972-247-1369, Cell: 214-232-0078

DFW GMC Dealerships

Classic of Arlington, 1400 E Interstate 20, Arlington, TX, 76018, 817-375-3000, www.classicarlington.com

Ray Riding Motors, Inc., 1111 East Hwy 243, Canton, TX, 75103, 903-567-4131, www.johncrow.com

Classic of Carrollton, 2700 N I 35 East, Carrollton, TX, 75007-4402, 972-242-4000, www.classicofcarrollton.com

Freedom Chevrolet Buick GMC, 8008 Marvin D. Love Freeway, Dallas, TX, 75237, 972-298-4911, www.freedomchevydallas.com

Gateway Buick GMC, 11438 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX, 75238, 214-342-7052

Sewell Village Buick-GMC, 7474 Lemmon Ave, Dallas, TX, 75209, 214-902-2222, www.sewellgmc.com

James Wood Decatur Buick-GMC, 2111 S Hwy 287, Decatur, TX, 76234, 940-627-2177, www.jameswooddecatur.com

James Wood Denton Buick GMC, 3906 I 35E S, Denton, TX, 76210, 972-434-1515, www.jameswoodpbg.com

Hiley BG of Fort Worth, 3535 W Loop 820 S, Fort Worth, TX, 76116-6648, 817-632-8800, www.hileygm.com

Luttrull-McNatt Buick GMC, 1608 W Hwy 82, Gainesville, TX, 76240, 940-665-5591, www.luttrullmcnatt.com

Classic of Granbury Buick-GMC , 1909 East Hwy. 377, Granbury, TX, 76049, 817-279-9775, www.classicgranbury.com

Freeman Buick-GMC, 501 W. State Highway 114 , Grapevine, TX, 76051, 817 410-5000, www.freemangrapevine.com

Southwest Buick GMC of East Texas, LLC, 4001 Interstate 30, Greenville, TX, 75402, 903-455-5100, www.greenvillepontiacbuickgmc.com

McKinney Buick GMC, 3950 S. Central Expressway, McKinney, TX, 75069, 469-952-5200, www.lonestarautogroup.com

Ewing Buick-GMC, 4464 Plano Pkwy, Plano, TX, 75093, 972-964-7400, www.thinkewing.com

Heritage Buick-GMC, 930 E I-30, Rockwall, TX, 75087, 972-771-7272, www.heritagebpg.com

Bruner Motors Inc., 1515 West S Loop US 377, Stephenville, TX, 76401, 254-968-2135, www.brunergm.com

Carlisle Buick-GMC, 1701 W US Highway 287 Bypass, Waxahachie, TX, 75167, 972 938-1991, www.waxahachiebuick.com

Jerry's Buick-GMC, 3118 Fort Worth Hwy., Weatherford, TX, 76087, 817-596-5581, www.jerrysbuickgmc.com