A Great American

This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day. A long holiday thatwe love as it opens the summer. Lest we forget those who made this holiday possible.

Born in Spartanburg South Carolina on May 25th, 1925 Walter M “Bud” Moore is a Great American.

Bud Moore, a veteran of the D-Day invasionof France in 1944 andwas with George Patton’s 3rd Army who releived the embattled 101st Airborne during the Battle of Bastogne.

Moore has seen many things that we cannot imagine, he has seen what we do not want to see.

We are so lucky to have those who have put their lives on the line and so luckyFOR those whohave given their lives.

Thank you Bud

I had the wonderful experience to work directly with Bud from 1982-1984 while managing the Wrangler Jeans racing program with Dale Earnhardt and Ricky Rudd in Bud’s #15 Wrangler Fords. Later, in 1986 when I moved to Spartanburg from Dallas, TX to set up a racing program for Derrike Cope, Bud and his wife, Betty insisted that my family move into their lake house on Lake Bowen until we found housing in Spartanburg. WhenI arrived after a two day drive from Dallas with my wife and two girls, Bud and Betty met us at the lake house with 2 weeks of groceries. My grown daughters still cherish playing with the ducks and squirrels at “Mr. Moore’s” lake house. Many years later Bud’s daughter-in-law stopped by the track at Richmond and returned several of my girls’ coloring books that had fallen behind a dryer at Bud’s lake house. They don’t make them any nicer than Bud Moore and his late wife, Betty. Same goes for Bud’s three sons. Bud is not just a great American, he is a great, unselfishperson.

I could not have said it better. Thank you so much, Bud, and every other veteran out there………who are the reasons we can sleep peacefully at night and enjoy the freedoms we do.

What a beautifully expressed token of graditude to someone who truly deserves it. I was so pleased to see Bud go into the NASCAR HOF and he still impresses me with his humble sincerity with everything he does. Takes a special guy to write something like this Richard. Thanks.

Tim