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OneGrassRoot

(23,444 posts)
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 05:14 AM Aug 2013

Never leave a young man behind

THIS PHOTO HAS GONE VIRAL, FOR GOOD REASON.




A marine who gallantly dropped back in a race to help a nine-year-old boy finish has become an internet sensation.

Lance Corporal Myles Kerr was competing in the annual run while home on leave in Charlevoix, Michigan when he spotted Boden Fuchs struggling to keep up.

The boy reportedly asked 19-year-old Kerr: 'Sir, will you please run with me?', after losing the group he was running with.

The race results show that after allowing his fellow marines to run off at full speed in the race along the shore of Lake Michigan, Kerr finished five seconds behind Fuchs at 34.53 minutes - and a long way behind his army friends.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2382356/Marine-Myles-Kerr-slowed-help-year-old-boy-finish-5k-race-goes-viral.html#ixzz2bBNyJ46Y



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Never leave a young man behind (Original Post) OneGrassRoot Aug 2013 OP
saw this on fb this morning fizzgig Aug 2013 #1
ohhh! handmade34 Aug 2013 #2

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
1. saw this on fb this morning
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 10:29 AM
Aug 2013

but it didn't have the full story.

and i think that's still a better time than i could to a 5k

handmade34

(22,950 posts)
2. ohhh!
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 02:24 PM
Aug 2013

warms my heart...

my kids are runners and when at a race they (and others often) will jump in and run with someone for a bit when they need that extra boost...

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