Veterans listen and applaud as President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks during the Rolling to Remember: Honoring Our Nations Veterans and POW-MIA event Friday, May 22, 2020, on the Blue Room Balcony of the White House.

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Rolling To Remember — a motorcade of past and present military service members advocating for suicide prevention — has announced the route of this year’s annual Memorial Day ride around the monuments.

Approximately 50,000 motorcyclists will convene at RFK Stadium at noon on May 30 to make their way through D.C. and circle the monuments, according to a press release. This is the second annual Rolling To Remember Ride, which succeeds the three-decades-long Rolling Thunder ride.

This year’s ride will travel from RFK to the National Mall along Interstate 395. Event organizers said they plan the yearly route to minimize disruption to nearby neighborhoods.

“The route is the most direct possible, staying out of the residential neighborhoods and avoiding certain routes key to the faith-based community on a Sunday morning,” said AMVETS national executive director Joe Chenelly in a press release.

AMVETS is a federally recognized nonpartisan organization that advocates for more than 19 million veterans and issues they are especially affected by (anyone who has served in the U.S. military is eligible for membership). The organization advocates for prisoners of war and people missing in action.

“As we continue with this tradition of holding Congress accountable for those still missing in action from past wars, we also ride to raise awareness of veteran suicide,” the press release reads.

Earlier this month, the Department of Defense rejected an event permit from organizers to gather at one of the Pentagon’s parking lots on Memorial Day, citing the pandemic and unexpected crowd size. Still, the group maintained it would stick to its scheduled ride day on May 30.

“There are no options with as much space and convenient routes to the memorials, meaning it will be more difficult, disruptive, and expensive than if the Pentagon parking lots were available,” Chenelly told Stars And Stripes at the time.

Not long after, Mayor Muriel Bowser gave the group permission to convene at RFK Stadium ahead of the event.

“When others turned us away, the District of Columbia helped AMVETS find a way for our fellow veterans to be heard, to honor the fallen and missing,” Chenelly said. “They and several other leaders and agencies have shown remarkable support for veterans and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”