Having decided to participate in the Bataan Death March this year, I 've started to get in shape for the 26 mile walk through the desert at White Sands Missile Range, NM. On Wednesday I walked 7 miles and today I walked 12. It took a little longer than I expected and about 30 minutes longer than the Army standard for 12 miles with a 35 pound rucksack, but I had to account for the mountainous terrain near the house. At one point I walked up about 1/2 the way to the top of the Franklin Mountains on the west side of El Paso. Santa brought me a GPS this year with a pedestrian mode so I was at just under 4900 feet in elevation at the top of the walk. Got pretty steep a that point. Feeling good.
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A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
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