Wesley and Jeremy yesterday ... road warriors!
Hello T & T friends!
I’d like to share with you what I am up to through May. I’m traveling across the United States with a pair of Iraq war veterans, Jeremy Staat and Wesley Barrientos. They are bicycling across the country to bring awareness to issues our veterans are facing in this country—the United States falls very short in assisting our veterans in assimilating back to “the real world” and is woefully inadequate as far as giving timely medical care.
We left Bakersfield on Sunday, February 19 and will arrive at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. on May 28.
We left Bakersfield on Sunday, February 19 and will arrive at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. on May 28.
This is a photo I took yesterday along State Route 247 from Barstow to Twentynine Palms. On the left is Wesley—a double amputee who lost his legs in an IED explosion, and he's riding a hand-cranked bike. The fellow standing is Jeremy Staat—and if that name is familiar to you, Jeremy is a graduate of ASU, where he was a star player alongside his dear friend Pat Tillman. Jeremy did play in the NFL for several teams, and at the end of his playing career, enlisted into the Marines.
If you are on Facebook, please “like” our pages, Wall to Wall Cross Country Bicycle Ride, The Jeremy Staat Foundation, and Life Over Legs. I’ll be posting updates on my own blog, Scared Moderate Female (yes, I’m semi-politically motivated, too), and I’m working on creating a Photobucket page of our adventures. I do update the Facebook pages first—I'm two days behind posting on my blog! Priorities are very much in order.
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