Photo by Sgt. Angela Parady | 121st Public Affairs Detachment | 04.21.2014
Col. Jack Mosher, Chief of Staff for the Maine Army National Guard and avid runner, recently completed the Boston Marathon in honor of Cpl. Andrew Hutchins, a 20 year old military policeman from Maine who died in Afghanistan. Hutchins’ daughter, Allyssa gave him a big hug and a kiss after he gave her his finisher’s medal and the shirt with her dad’s picture on it. This was not the first......
Photo by Sgt. Angela Parady | 121st Public Affairs Detachment | 04.21.2014
After receiving his finisher’s medal at the completion of the Boston Marathon, Col. Jack Mosher was embraced by Heather and Alyssa. It was an experience Mosher reflects on as a culmination of all his previous marathons, and one he will never forget, Mosher took off his hard earned finisher’s medal, and placed it around Allyssa’s neck, and told her it was hers now. Heather said she......
Photo by Sgt. Angela Parady | 121st Public Affairs Detachment | 04.21.2014
“Boston was an incredible emotional experience,” said Col. Jack Mosher, Chief of Staff for the Maine Army National Guard. “It was the culmination of every marathon I’ve ever run. To have been at the Boston Marathon the year before, which I was and to see the tragedy that unfolded there, one year later only to see 1 million people standing in the streets, six people deep for 36 miles......
