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Marine loses marathon to run with young boy

Marine loses marathon to run with young boy

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by: Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Aug 1, '13 5:39pm  
Never leave a young man behind: Photo of marine who slowed down to help a nine-year-old boy finish a 5k race goes viral
Marine encouraged nine-year-old boy all the way to the finish linePicture of them running already has 200,000 likes on Facebookhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382356/Marine-Myles-Kerr-slowed-help-year-old-boy-finish-5k-race-goes-viral.html 4951
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Annie Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 10 years ago   Aug 1, '13 6:05pm  
Nice story.
 
Think he will help me do 5k too? Emoticon
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~ 10 years ago   Aug 1, '13 6:30pm  
There are really good people out there. Too bad most of the news is only about the bad ones. But with this instant news lately there are getting to be more stories of the good people do! Here's to you Officer Kerr!! 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Aug 1, '13 6:41pm  
Removed By Request 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Aug 1, '13 8:32pm  
An awesome time for a 9 year old!!! Just under 6 mph- way faster than my best time of 5k in 44:00. What a nice thing for the Marine to do- we ( not sure I count myself as a runner per se) runners and cyclists often will ditch the personal bests to help another runner or cyclists.
Back in May dh and I did Tour La Fitte in Lake Charles. Dh and I did the 28 mile route - at a pretty good clip of 17 mph. We came in, troweled off and chilled. About 15-20 minutes after we came in the announcer on the PA said " the last riders for the 10 mile ride are arriving( we're talking an average of less than 5mph). So a bunch of us gathered along the finish to cheer them in. It was sooo cute- it was a Dad and his 2 boys- one about 7-8 and the other maybe 4 or 5. The little one still had training wheels- he had ridden 10 miles on a bitty bike with training wheels!!!! You can bet they got the loudest cheers. It was so awesome seeing that little boy- all smiles crossing the finish line!! 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Aug 2, '13 1:25pm  
Read the comments.  Some moron asks "why is it relevant he's a marine"? Um, moron, because he's a marine. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Aug 2, '13 2:50pm  
AWESOME story....  4951
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KTownTexican Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 10 years ago   Aug 3, '13 8:14am  
I always thought a Marine never loses,, he just chooses to win? 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Aug 3, '13 10:23am  
I always thought a Marine never loses,, he just chooses to win?
 
@KTownTexican:  He may not have won the marathon but he won the respect and admiration of a nine year old boy and thousands of people!
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~ 10 years ago   Aug 3, '13 6:19pm  
LOVE IT!!!! 4951
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