ARDMORE, OK - The Ardmore and Madill chapter of the vietnam and Legacy veteran motorcycle club head to Arizona today in hopes to bring home several of their missing soldiers.

Robert Wood, known as "Knucklehead" to his fellow Vietnam veteran motorcycle club members explained the symbolism of his 1946 motorcycle.

"The red is for the blood that was slipped in Vietnam, the black on the P.O.W and on my seat is for the mourning for the soilders that we had left," Robert "Knucklehead" Wood said.

Knucklehead was drafted into the Army in 1967, and he plans on taking his bike and club members 1,000 miles to Tuscon, Arizona in 24 hours.

The club pulled out of the Wholesale Mobile Homes at 2 p.m. and they said they are not stopping for anything other than gas, water and food.

"Knucklehead's theme on this is the P.O.W and M.I.A issue which is what our club is all about," club member Tommy Reyna said.

The club raised money for the trip by accepting donations and the $5,000 will be donated to the families of the Vietnam search team.

"The 1,683 men that's still in Vietnam," Knucklehead said. "If we bring them home, if we can just bring part of them home that would be great. There are so many families that keep looking over their shoulder hoping the son or their soldier will come back. "

"The search team is having luck finally. we are finding some of the soldiers bodies and some of the DNA that proves that this was them," Reyna said.

Oklahoma State Representative Pat Ownbey and Senator Frank Simpson honored Knucklehead with a legislative citation at the send off.

"You can't help but talk to him and realize how this is in his heart," Ownbey said. "He has started doing this several months ago and now he has made the commitment."

"It's gonna be a fun ride for about 200 miles if it'll stay dry then, then it might start hurting me but I am doing it for a great cause," Knucklehead said. "There's been a lot of people saying that I won't even make it but I'm determined and with God's help I will."