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Offline rangerrebew

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Column: Crossing America one step at a time
« on: October 26, 2022, 09:15:26 am »
Column: Crossing America one step at a time
 
BY DIANE BELLCOLUMNIST
OCT. 25, 2022 5:30 AM PT
 
It was inevitable that folks compared Army combat veteran Kenny Mintz to Forrest Gump when Mintz traversed U.S. back roads from coast to coast.

But there are major differences.

Gump embarked on his journey to find himself. Mintz had a specific mission — raising money for three charities: two serving military-related causes and a third for pancreatic cancer as a tribute of his late mother.

Gump ran mostly in silence, while Mintz’s battle cry was “Come walk with me,” and he relished his many conversations. His journey was to meet the American people he had served.

Gump ran. Mintz walked, savoring unexpected encounters with a mountain lion and her cub, antelope, elk, mule deer and a mountain goat near Borrego Springs as he neared his final destination in Encinitas on Oct. 22.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/columnists/story/2022-10-25/column-crossing-america-one-step-at-a-time
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Re: Column: Crossing America one step at a time
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2022, 09:17:08 am »
Wow.  I've fantasized about doing that as well - walking across America - but it's not a realistic goal for me, unfortunately.
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2022, 09:21:17 am »
It's amazing how people like this served in an organization that believes if women just killed more babies, recruiting would be better. *hmmmm* 
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address
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