Every once in a great while, you stumble upon a story that is so powerful it makes you want to be a better person.
Rory Fanning is walking. He has been almost every day since Sept. 17. But this isn't an ordinary stroll in the park. Fanning has a mission: to walk across the U.S. in memory of his friend, Pat Tillman, the Arizona State and Arizona Cardinals star who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004 by friendly fire.
Fanning, a former Army Ranger, began his journey in Virginia Beach, Va. towards his destination--Huntington Beach, Ca.--averaging 20-miles per day.
Along the way, Fanning stopped in Tempe, Arizona to send off the runners in the fifth-annual 'Pat's Run', a 4.2 mile course which starts outside the Sun Devil Stadium and finishes on the 42-yard-line (Tillman wore number 42 at Arizona State).
Fanning's goal is to raise $3.6 million, the contract amount that Tillman turned down to become an Army Ranger, for the Tillman foundation, while raising awareness about Tillman's story.
*Photo: Mark Wilson/Roswell Daily Record
That's a great story. I have a friend that goes to ASU and did the Tillman run Saturday morning. Said there was about 20,000 people doing it, which is awesome.
ReplyDeleteAwesome story. Pat Tillman's story has maintained over the years and it's because of stories like the one above that people care about it still.
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