Announcing:

 The GSRF Celebrity Golf Outing


Gold Star Ride Foundation is hosting a day of fun, honor, and friendly competition on June 29th of 2026 to be followed up by a 5 day/4 night golf outing to the tropics in the Dominican Republic next January. Your sponsorship can make a real, lasting, and personal difference in the lives of Gold Star Families.

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GOLD STAR RIDE

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We Ride Because They Died




About Us

MISSION:

The Gold Star Ride Foundation will actively support, comfort and provide education benefits to Gold Star Families throughout the United States and will provide these things directly with personal visits via motorcycle; and we will support those other organizations that work to assist in these same activities.


We do the work that our fallen heroes would do it they hadn't fallen for all our freedom.


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Yours, Very Sincerely and Respectfully

The True Story of the Gold Star Ride Foundation's 2018 Journey Across, Around and Through America, Honoring Gold Star Families.

     In the summer of 2012, one man was introduced to the idea of our nation’s Gold Star Families in a very personal way.

     Since that day, that one man has worked tirelessly to find a means and method to do anything to promote the honor of any Gold Star Family in the United States; even if it meant going to another country.

     Born the ninth child in a family of thirteen, Anthony Price has never had it easy. That may have been the ingredient needed to live out this story.

     Yours, Very Sincerely and Respectfully is that story. Taking the closing line from Abraham Lincoln’s famous Bixby Letter, the title encapsulates the message in five words better than any other description.

     The story laid out in this book tells everything. It tells you how it began. It tells you why Gold Star Families are important. It details the pitfalls of starting a charity, raising money, and the dangers of Riding a motorcycle nearly twenty thousand miles to get the mission accomplished.

     The story explains how someone with a dream, passion, and maybe an insane amount of stubbornness will win the day. Persistence will bring ideas to light more than any other ingredient.

     Keith Carey spins the story in a way that is both captivating and inspiring.
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In Memorial:


In October, 2024, the Gold Star Ride Foundation board of directors met for the 7th time.

During this meeting, Dr Paul Dingman retired.  Revi Schaible was named president and Mike Barnum was introduced as the new vice president.  Anthony Price remained in his position as secretary / executive director.


Dr Dingman served with great distinction throughout the life of the Gold Star Ride Foundation, and his leadership will be missed.


Two weeks later, on October 28, 2024, Dr Dingman passed away after a long battle with cancer.




Our hearts are so heavy with sadness, it's difficult to find words.


 He was 59 years old, one day shy of his 60th birthday.


Dr. Dingman served for 6 years - as our vice president first, and two years into it, he became our president.


Through his dedication and tireless efforts, we have been able to accomplish the things we have.  
In the 15 years that I've known him, never once did I catch him in a foul mood.  Not once.  If there was ever a human soul that deserved heaven in eternity because of the way they treated people here on earth, it was his soul.


Once, many years ago, while minding his own business in his office, a stranger came in threw a beaker of acid in his face.  The injuries were quite severe and he spent some time in the hospital healing.  But never did he express a cross word at his attacker.


Even while fighting cancer, never a cross word.


He always wanted to hear whatever was on your mind. He always made you feel like you were the most important person in the world.


And yes, this is the way he treated me.  But I witnessed him treating everyone this way. 


I miss Paul. I miss him a lot.
And I'm sure I will miss him for the rest of my life.


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A Quick Story
We Met Tom

The Story of Nathan

The following was first published by the Associated Press.

Soldier with Utah Ties Killed in Iraq.

The Associated Press
BLANDING, Utah — A 32-year-old soldier raised in Utah was killed in Iraq, the DOD said June 28.
     Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Winder, who grew up in Blanding in southeastern Utah, died June 26 from small-arms fire in Ad Diwaniyah, the department said.
     He was a Special Forces medic assigned to an airborne unit. Winder was part of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, out of Fort Lewis, Washington.
     A native of South Korea, Winder was 2 when he was adopted by Tom and Terri Winder of Blanding. He left the area 14 years ago to pursue a career in the armed forces.
     “They’re shocked and sorrowed, like you’d expect. But they’re a strong family,” said family spokesman Bill Boyle, publisher of the San Juan Record, a weekly newspaper in San Juan County.
     Winder was married and had an 11-year-old son.

Utah soldier killed in Iraq loved children

The Associated Press
     Army Sgt. 1st Class Nathan L. Winder was with his unit at an Iraqi hospital when they spotted a girl with a gash on her face. She had apparently been refused care.
     For privacy, some soldiers surrounded the girl while Winder used his skills as a medic to stitch up the wound on her cheek. Winder gave her a stuffed toy when he was done.
     Someone had a camera outside the hospital, and the resulting picture of that impromptu operation now remains as an example of how Winder’s parents define their son.
     “He loved kids,” said his father, Tom Winder. “He always had something for the kids.”
     Winder, 32, of Blanding, Utah, died June 26 in Diwaniyah, Iraq, of wounds from small-arms fire. He was assigned to Fort Lewis, Wash.
     Born in Seoul, South Korea, Winder was adopted at the age of 2.
     In all, the Winders have adopted eight children, some of them with special needs.
     “The fact that he was abandoned at such an early age affected him all his life,” said his mother, Terri Winder. “He was very tender, even though he had created a hard shell on the outside. And he laughed a lot.”
He also is survived by his wife, Mechelle, and their 11-year-old son, Logan.

What People Say

 My heart is so full! I hope to eventually find the right words to express all that has been running through my head and heart since your visit. Ride easy Tony. Keep safe. I feel all those warriors whose families you're honoring are present with you. Really. I felt that last night.

....Christy
May God Bless you and your family for the work that you are doing for Gold Star Families.

...Dave

I still can't believe you rode 3000 miles just to see us! It's all my daughter has been able to talk about for the last 3 weeks! Thank you!

...Danielle

Our Board

Anthony Price

Mr. Price has served as the Secretary on the Board of Directors since 2016, and serves as the Executive Director. He is a disabled veteran and was handed an Honorable Discharge from the US Navy in 1991. He has a full resume including being the head of an IT company (2000-2012), and entertainment company beginning in 1983, and a real estate company (2002-2010) . He is currently spending most of his time with the GSRF, and also acts as a consultant to entertainment and real estate companies.

Jeff (Banger) Bang

Vice President

Jeff is an old hat when it comes to leadership roles. Sure, he was a lowly enlisted man when he served in the US Navy, launching jets off an aircraft carrier, but then he spent decades building nuclear plants around the country.

Later, he was elected the role of Commander of Amvets Post 1789 in Brookville, OH, where he served until he was elected Amvets District Commander of Southwest Ohio.

In October, 2025, he accepted the post of Vice President of the Gold Star Ride Foundation. This is an unpaid position, and he has been actively involved in various Gold Star activities for years.

Welcome aboard!

Dr. Paul Dingman

Past President, in Remembrance

Dr. Dingman had been practicing chiropractic care for nearly 3 decades and at the same location for more than 2 decades. He had been serving on the Board of Directors for the GSRF since 2016, and being elected to the president's position in 2018. He was married for more than 2 decades and has 3 grown children. He, like many Minnesotans, enjoyed fishing and hunting as his favorite recreation activities.

During his last year, serving as our president, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. He stepped down as our president just two weeks before he died.

We will always remember Dr. Dingman, and we hope you do as well.

Until Valhalla!

.


Mike (BM) Barnum President

Big Mike


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