Friends accompanying members of Post 597 on the trip to Washington, D.C. were: Willie J. Harris, Sadie Harris, Mamie Garnett, Adasha Elam, Vanessa G. Brown, Brenda Murray, Eileen N. Mays, Mary Magwood, Gary Norman, Regina Norman, Aundrey E. Hawes, KeKe E. Garnett, Carrie S. Parker, Ray Curry, Jr., Colleen Mattox, Leila Jackson, Linda Walker, Emily Anthony, Berlinda Jamison, Ray Robinson, Elaine Thomas, Melanie Thomas, Willie Mae Calhoun, Agnes McLarkin, and bus driver, Roosevelt Norman of T & D Bus Lines, Gainesville, Georgia.