Rory Fanning
Rory Fanning, age 34, of Chicago, IL walked from Virginia Beach, VA to San Diego, CA in 2008-2009 in honor of Pat Tillman. Fanning served in the 2nd Ranger Battalion with Tillman. The idea was to raise the $3.6 million Tillman gave up when he left the NFL to join the military. The money was donated to the Pat Tillman Foundation. He spent 8 months, walking across the U.S., speaking to schools, prisons, and corporations. He stopped 42 steps from the Pacific Ocean, symbolic of Tillman's jersey number, technically "not walking across the country for Pat," as he said in his final blog entry. He walked 50 miles (80 km) in 23 hours while in New Mexico.
Read more about this topic: List Of People Who Have Walked Across The United States
Famous quotes containing the word fanning:
“I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
What I love is near at hand,
Always, in earth and air.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)