Veterans walk Freedom Trail

Title: Veterans walk Freedom Trail

Published: Tue, 11 Nov 2008

Description: (Scot Yount, NECN) - Veterans Day is a day to reflect and remember those who served their country. On this day in Boston, veterans took to the Freedom Trail. Their mission? To help disabled troops on the road to recovery. The trek began at...

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" Well that's that's a really breezy night on Beacon Hill -- some might even say downright cold. But none of that has deterred at least one Iraq War veteran -- marching tonight in memory of veterans. Local and let them feel pretty good about it because it for -- it's been a long day of remembrance and thanks. Armistice day first commemorating the end of World War I now veterans started. With five organizations were donating to. It started at 11 AM with nearly forty people at one point. But now a single soul marching the Boston freedom trail raising money for injured veterans what we've been doing it from eleven and 11 PM. People are donating on the hour that I walk. All the way to bunker hill back. And they're doing it on line and veteran training -- Award it's a website set up to help disabled veterans put their lives back together -- what we do is we take disabled law enforcement firemen and military. And Maria we rehabilitated by putting him back and do. Funny actually that hiking we take them. Swimming was taken to some sort of an obstacle course and we just we just developed their their abilities again. One of those double amputee Brian Fontaine who with no legs found the courage to walk to trail. On this night met -- will finish the twelve hour marathon walking back and forth between the Boston Common and the bunker hill monument alone. He's glad to do to raise money for at least five charities that help disabled veterans. Something he sought to much in his ten year army service from Kosovo to Iraq and -- realized that. When people told they can't sometimes they believe. That and sometimes it's just not true. I think that he and other veterans have proven that to be the case if you want to get involved even after veterans day the website still stands it will take your donation and its -- training. Dot Award that's Scott -- reporting and Boston."

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