Ron Zaleski walking barefoot to help veterans heal

Man walking across country hopes to raise awareness for military personnel
WBIR.com
Updated: 9/6/2010
A marine veteran has made his way to East Tennessee this week to call attention to the high suicide rate among those in the military.

Ron Zaleski is walking barefoot across America to raise awareness about the suicides and other mental health problems among current and returning service members.

Zaleski starting walking in Concord, Massachusetts on June 1, 2010 and is hoping to make it to California by next May. Zaleski hopes his walk will encourage the military to provide mental health counseling for all soldiers in boot camp and when they leave the service as well as make support groups available to every former member and their family.

"We have to give them all the help that we can to humanly help them, because they're America, they're our future. If we don't help them what are we doing to our future?" explained Zaleski.
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Man walking across country