May 27, 2024
“If Not Me, Then Who….” - 1LT Travis Manion, USMC “Lead from the front. Never forget those who were killed.” - MAJ Doug Zembiec, USMC
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“If Not Me, Then Who….” - 1LT Travis Manion, USMC “Lead from the front. Never forget those who were killed.” - MAJ Doug Zembiec, USMC
Travis Manion Run Set Sunday at Mill Dam Park
The Travis Manion Foundation will host a un on Sunday as part of the 2025 9/11 Heroes Run series. The annual race series honors the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, and in the conflicts that followed, while paying tribute to the veterans, military service members, and first responders who continue to serve. Now in its 18th year, the 9/11 Heroes Run series is happening in more than 100 locations…
In memoriam - 11 years ago today.
1LT Travis Manion, USMC: Nov. 19, 1980 - Apr. 29, 2007 USNA Grad, Wrestler, Warrior. Semper Fi Spartan.
"If Not Me, Then Who....." - Travis Manion Foundation
Book Review: ‘Brothers Forever’ by Tom Sileo and Col. Tom Manion
Book Review: ‘Brothers Forever’ by Tom Sileo and Col. Tom Manion
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been going on for well over a decade. Thousands and thousands of American military soldiers have been seriously wounded and many others have given their lives to protect the freedoms of the American people.
It’s a sacrifice that is unimaginable both for the men and women who serve and the families that worry about them, support them in any way they can and show…
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Any of you Houstonians doing the run in September? I'm seriously thinking about signing up to do it...if I ever have a spare $30 that I can put toward it. I think it would be a great run to get me back into things.
9/11 Heroes Runs: Running in Tribute to the Fallen
On April 29, 2007, 1st Lieutenant Travis Manion, USMC, was killed by enemy sniper fire in Fallujah, Iraq. He died while saving the lives of fellow soldiers and was awarded the Silver Star and a Bronze Star with Valor for his actions that day.
This could have been the end of his story. But before he died, Manion, a runner, had asked his father, Tom, to sign up for the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C. Travis had planned to come back to the U.S. so the two could run the race together. After his parents were informed of his death, Tom, a Marine colonel, decided to run the marathon as a tribute. So did many of Travis’s friends. But when money and letters began pouring in about the impact Travis had on the lives of others, the Manions decided that they wanted his legacy to live on and influence others in the same positive way he did. “We really didn’t know how much he had touched so many people until his death,” says his mother, Janet Manion.
In 2008, they created the not-for-profit Travis Manion Foundation, which now holds 9/11 Heroes Runs in 35 different locations, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and aboard a naval ship. The first race was run in their hometown of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 2008. Today, more than 15,000 people participate in the races and many contribute or raise money for the foundation, which awards scholarships and fellowships to wounded and disabled veterans, and offers a “Character Matters” leadership programs at more than 50 schools. The organization boasts that it channels more than 90 percent of its donations to actual causes.
The races — typically 5K and 9K runs/walks — pledge 25 percent of all net proceeds to a first responder or military charity in that town. Each race holds special events and memorials, including, in some cases, military flyovers. Race T-shirts display an American flag. Finishers receive a dog-tag medal that commemorates the event. Those who aren’t running can go to Facebook and make their own commemorative bib with a personal 9/11 message. “This is all about the living honoring the fallen…people who have sacrificed everything," says Janet Manion.
There's still time to enter a number of the 9/11 Heroes Runs across the country. How are you planning to commemorate the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01?
--Sam Greengard, Runner's World Reporter
Photo: Courtesy of the Travis Manion Foundation