Child runs 7 miles to honor Marine dad killed in 2015 Black Hawk crash
The Associated Press
SANTA ROSA, Fla. — A 7-year-old girl completed a 7-mile run in honor of her father and six of his fellow Marines who were killed in a Black Hawk training crash.
Makenzie Kemp and her mother, Jenna, were already participating in the Marine Raider Foundation’s 5-mile run in Pinehurst, North Carolina, over Memorial Day weekend, but at the last minute the girl asked to extend it an extra two miles — one mile for each Marine.
The little girl was only a year old in 2015 when Sgt. Kerry Michael Kemp was killed during a training mission in Santa Rosa Sound, Florida. He was one of seven Marines and four Army National Guard soldiers who died.
His wife Jenna Kemp was pregnant at the time.
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/06/03/child-runs-7-miles-to-honor-marine-dad-killed-in-2015-black-hawk-crash/
