While at the 9/11 Memorial, I picked up a Flag of Honor, which contains the names of everyone who perished on 9.11.01. Proceeds from the sale benefit several charities such as the National 911 Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero and the Wounded Warrior Project.
Two holes in the ground now have two holes in the ground. The 9/11 Memorial is a place that honors the sacrifice our country and too many families have made. I don’t think it could be a more fitting memorial, and this is a place I hope everyone is able to visit, and take in. …
10 years later, NYC was the place we wanted to be, and we wanted to share it with friends. So we hosted the 9/11 Fundraising Challenge Weekend, which raised $30K for the Green Beret Foundation and let us see New York, together. It wasn’t a party, but it wasn’t a funeral, either. More like a …
A hole in all our hearts and the origins of GORUCK. Though time has passed, I can recall with absolute clarity the rage I felt after 9/11. Soon enough our memories of Ground Zero will have a memorial, and a monument, and an anchored skyline. And when the Challenge comes to NYC, 1 World Trade Center will always be on the route. Not so much for what it was as for what it is.
Class 004 met up at 2am on a chilly middle-of-the-night. NYC was characteristically oblivious, even as 15 Challenge takers started running under headlamps through a dark Central Park. The team bonded fast, reveling in the camaraderie of cold, wet, and muddy from head to toe. Logs moved great distances above shivering Challenge takers before the …
