Army Vet Runs Across Country Planting Flags for Fallen Soldiers

At each mile marker he crossed on his 2,146-mile trip from Minnesota to Texas, Mike Ehredt stopped running for a moment to plant a flag representing a fallen American soldier. On his journey, Project America Run, he has jogged 26 miles a day across the country to memorialize soldiers who died in the Afghanistan war. In 2010 he ran from Oregon to Maine to honor those who died in Iraq. "It's to honor and say thank you to those that died in Iraq and Afghanistan," he said. "I stop each mile, put...Full Story