Hike for our Heros

[LadyJaye]

This guy is all over the news these days, but I've been following him on Facebook almost since the beginning of his hike. I'm impressed with his will, reserve, and willingness to do what it takes to help our Nation's Heros after they come home from their tour of duty. He's walking 7000 miles to raise $5,000,000 for soldiers that come home and struggle with the everyday hardships here at home, like finding a job, maintaining their homes, etc. Not to mention Emmie the Super Dog is cute :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9kZ0hl57z0

http://www.drumhike.com/

http://www.dogisgood.com/servlet/the-58/Tee-cln---Never-Walk/Detail

Unfortunately, he won't be in Georgia until late March of next year. I'm going to join him and walk when he gets here though.

If you are so inclined to help and support Troy, there are T-shirts, you can donate online, you can text SOLDIERS to 20222 to donate $5 or you can just sign up to follow him and Emmie on Facebook and give him encouragement.

[LadyJaye]

Troy, Marieke, Emmie and Harley's Mission Statement:

Our soldiers are ready at a moments notice. They don't pick their battles, but when called to service they respond. Keeping our enemies at bay. Our heroes are champions of freedom not eager for war but willing to sacrifice.

One for the need of many. Many veterans live by this military code and have done so when our country needed it the most. Now it is our NATIONAL HEROES who need our help and its time that we all stand by them with honor.

While one soldier may miss holidays, a birthday, or a birth of a child, others may suffer mentally and develop anxiety, depression or PTSD. Some even sacrifice much more by being injured by road side bombs, being shot or taking shrapnel. Some pay the ultimate price.

In any case, we ask a lot of our men and women in uniform and when in their time of strife, who can they call on?

And that's where we come in!


OUR MISSION


Is to further spread the word that our American Heroes are fighting just as hard at home as they do overseas. We hope to provide a peace of mind and lay the foundation for military families in need to succeed. Troy will literally put one foot in front of the other, crossing the great states of America to reach people and help spread the importance of helping our military families.



Our goal is to raise the needed $5 million for these families!

Raising $5 million for military families is no easy task. Here is a list of goals we hope to accomplish in-order to help us spread the word and support

-Get permission to perform a "Walk of Honor Ceremony" at The Churchill Downs track on Derby day.
This will immediately help us draw attention to our mission and hopefully get seen by Millions of people

-Enlist the help from many different organizations!
We need several groups of well organized people to help join in the hike. We hope the Police, Fire, and E.M.S departments along with Boy Scouts, Musicians, Young Marines and many Veterans whom can step up to the challenge of hiking throughout their cities to help raise awareness.

-Enlist the help from the American Legion and VFW
We will need space to park our RV and run our operations in the larger cities. We hope to team up with these great organizations and get many of these great men and women to walk along side Troy when possible.

-Get into every sports venue possible
Already we are working towards this goal and have secured some of the many MLB/Minor League Baseball games along Troy's route. We hope to be able to hike several football and basketball games as well. Here we hope to get an advertisement on the Jumbo Tron or programs promoting awareness.

-Meet Diane Sawyer
Yocum hopes to meet with one of his hometown's most prominent and beloved daughters in hopes to spread our story nationally.

-Get story and charity info into every Newspaper along route 2-5 days before we arrive.
It is imperative that we reach people with our story before Troy arrives. This will help get more publicity for the event and in-turn help raise more money.

-Publish the story in 30 magazines and 1000 websites
The more people read about the story the more chances of helping military families

-Find Bands who can help with the benefit shows
The Music benefit shows play a vital role in spreading the word. Not everyone will go to a sports game but many people love music


-Be interviewed on 2 major talk Shows
We are hoping to use our contacts to be on a late night talk show. Spring boarding the hike into national press.

-Do a PSA or interviews on 5 major Radio shows
We are looking for radio shows to donate air time to run a PSA about Troy's hike. Troy also has a goal of getting on the Dennis Miller radio program and several others along his route.

-Get A Book Deal
With the release of the documentary we hope to promote and distribute the story of Troy and Emmie's hike across America!

[haus en heimer]

Damn, 7000 miles!!! :eek:

[LadyJaye]

Yep, 7000, he's already done more 1000 miles in about 6 weeks. Amounts to over 5 million steps in total. Plus its hot as hell right now. He does have a "chase" RV, but still, he hikes in the hot weather and the rain since he has fundraisers and meetings with mayors all along the route, he has to keep a schedule going.

[ninjagirl06]

Very impressive:handclap: and best wishes to the guy:up: thanks for posting that.

[LadyJaye]

I can't wait to read the book that he writes, I know he is meeting some amazing people and will have a wonderful story to tell when he's done.