Montana Vietnam Veteran walking from Washington state to Washington DC

Vietnam veteran walking cross country makes stop in Eastern Kentucky
WYMT.com
By: Hillary Thornton
Aug 19, 2013

SALYERSVILLE, Ky. (WYMT) - A Montana man is on a journey, walking cross country from Washington state to Washington, D.C. and on Monday, he made a stop in Eastern Kentucky.

Each step with a purpose, "Trying to bring awareness for the high suicide rate of our young warriors," explains Vietnam War veteran Marine Sgt. Chuck Lewis. He began this journey more than four months ago in Everett, Washington.

Lewis says, "It began with the fact that we had a Marine that separated 3 June, came home 4 June and we buried him on 30 June, he had taken his own life...left behind a wife and 1-year-old daughter."

With each step Sgt. Lewis takes along his journey he says he is thinking of all the fallen soldiers, but he has a very unique description of who exactly a fallen soldier is.

Jeremy Holbrook explains, "When he uses the word fallen he doesn't mean the ones that didn't come back, he means all of us."
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