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- The Wear Blue Mile is a living memorial
that we are building at the Marine Corps marathon.
I'm gonna back up and I'm gonna tell you what Wear Blue is.
Wear Blue is a running community
that honors the service and sacrfice
of the American military.
So across the country, we have
over 50 running communities who gather on a regular basis.
And each week they circle.
They call out the names of the fallen service members
and push off and do something life affirming.
They run.
But we're going to start, and we'll have our name,
Wear Blue, Run to Remember kind of initiating the mile.
And then it's going to be
the racecourse lined with 300
Faces of the Fallen tribute posters.
So, after the Faces of the Fallen tribute posters,
they're followed by full-sized American flags.
300 hundred, billowing, full-sized American flags.
And each of these flags are held by
a family member, a fellow service member,
who's been specifically touched
by the life of one of the heroes honored on that racecourse.
I think as
families of the fallen, as active duty military,
and as supporters in our Armed Forces,
we have a desire to ensure that
the bravest in our nation
do not become pages of the past
but remain a very real part of our lives.
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We live in a fast paced world,
and we're thrown so much information every day.
It's
easy to forget words.
It's hard to forget a face.