• Home
  • News
    • Business
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
    • Legislature
    • Politics / Govt
  • Sports
    • The Bill Pollock Show
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support

Missourinet

Your source for Missouri News and Sports

You are here: Home / Military / Run for the Fallen makes their way through Missouri

Run for the Fallen makes their way through Missouri

July 27, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

To most people running a mile doesn’t sound like much, but when you’re running a mile for every American service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan those miles add up to more than 4,000. 

For the 14 members of Run for the Fallen , Missouri is the ninth of 13 states they’ll run through. By the time they cross the state line into Illinois today, they will have run for 44 days and covered more than 2,072 miles on foot. They have to avoid main highways as they make their way from Fort Irwin California to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Director Jon Bellona, says even though they run relay style, they’re running together as one ton honor and remember fallen service members. 

"Every mile we get we’re getting closer to home but every mile is getting harder to run," he said. 

They are marking each mile with a flag containing the information of the soldier that the mile is for and they are taking pictures of each to document the trip.

Their trip will come to an end on August 24 th in Arlington National cemetery in Virginia.

download or listen to Aurora Meyer’s story here.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Military

Subscribe to our daily newsletter

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published.



Tweets by Missourinet

Sports

Download Mizzou’s 2021 football schedule

2021 … [Read More...]

I wonder what Charles Barkley thought about those SEC officials? (PODCAST)

Thanks for … [Read More...]

Scott Rolen makes big jump in Hall of Fame voting

No players … [Read More...]

Tough time stopping Cooper as Mizzou falls to Auburn

12th … [Read More...]

Perron scores twice, Blues top Vegas in shootout

David … [Read More...]

More Sports

Tweets by missourisports

Archives

Opinion/Editorials

TwitterFacebook

Copyright © 2021 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC