Afghanistan veteran runs for charity, punched by villain

This Vet Was Punched In The Face While Running 3,600 Miles For Charity
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Huffington Post
Posted: 10/03/2013

Brendan O’Toole won’t let anything stop him from running 3,600 miles to raise funds for struggling veterans –- not even something as serious as a blow to the head he recently sustained.

After serving four years and two deployments in Afghanistan, O’Toole returned to the U.S. and his friend who served in Iraq committed suicide and O’Toole found the bureaucracy he faced at the VA unbearable. That’s when the former Marine decided to take matters into his own hands in order to get the services he, and thousands of other returning vets, need, NBC Philadelphia reported.

”The VA system is backed up right now, and instead of playing the blame game we decided to find services that can help our veterans,” O’Toole told CBS42.
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