Fisher House Run remembering fallen service members

Section D
Couch Potato.............. D3
Golf tip........................D3
SportS
Fun run
Military Family Month kicks off
with fun run-walk
D4
T h u r s d a y , N ov e m b e r 5, 2015
www.FortHoodSentinel.com
Photos by Kelby Wingert, Sentinel Sports Editor
Members of the Fort Hood community walk along the route for Saturday’s Fisher House Hero and Remembrance Run, Walk or Roll at III Corps Headquarters. There were more than 7,000 boots lining the 2.5mile route, each representing a fallen U.S. service member or service dog since 2001. Each boot had a tag with the service members’ name, photo, hometown or military unit and the date they died.
Fisher House Run remembering fallen service members
BY KELBY WINGERT
Sentinel Sports Editor
Saturday morning, more than
4,000 runners and walkers lined up
before dawn on the pavement near
Sadowski Field in front of III Corps
and Fort Hood Headquarters for the
second annual Fisher House Hero
and Remembrance Run, Walk or
Roll.
Lining the route that the runners
would eventually take were nearly
7,200 military uniform boots, each
representing a fallen service member
or military working dog since 2001.
The boots represent those lost in
combat, training accidents, suicide
and other incidents.
The Remembrance Run was started a few years ago by Theresa Johnson, when she was living in Hawaii
Members of Team Red, White and Blue, carry the American flag as they
walk along the route at III Corps Headquarters’ Sadowski Field Saturday
morning.
SPORTS BRIEFS
NOV. 12
Boot display
The boot display from Saturday’s Fisher House Hero and
Remembrance Run will stay up
in front of III Corps and Fort Hood
Headquarters through Veterans
Day.
Volunteers
are
needed to help pick up the 7,000
boots.
Any volunteers can show up at
the display at 7 a.m. Nov. 12 to
help with the clean up.
NOV. 14
UFC 193
Fort Hood’s Family and
Morale, Welfare and Recreation
will host a watch party for UFC
193 at the Backbone Lounge
Nov. 14.
Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm
will headline the fight night for
the World Bantamweight Championship.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Valerie
Letourneau will also fight in the
World Strawweight Championship.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and
the event is free and open to all
over the age of 18.
ONGOING
Intramural Volleyball
Sign up your unit or battalion
intramural volleyball team. The
season starts in November.
To sign up, contact Mr. Homer
Beck at 288-3622.
NFL Sunday Ticket
The Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation will host the
NFL Sunday Ticket watch party
each week at the Backbone
Lounge, now through Jan. 3.
The events are free and open
to all, ages 18 and older.
and working at the Fisher House at
Tripler Army Medical Center while
her husband was stationed nearby. Johnson worked for the Fisher
House, an organization that provides
a “home away from home” for veterans and military Families of patients
receiving treatment at military hospitals. There are Fisher Houses on 23
military installations and at 24 Veterans Affairs medical centers across the
country.
Johnson said she wanted to bring
more attention to the Fisher House
organization while also doing something to remember fallen military
members.
“A lot of people run in Hawaii ...
so I thought, ‘Let’s do a run but add
the uniqueness of putting a name and
a face to it,’” she said.
The run isn’t timed and there are
no winners because “it’s all about the
journey,” Johnson said.
When Johnson’s husband was relocated to Fort Hood, she introduced
the installation to the Remembrance
Run in 2014.
Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Colt, commanding general of Army Division West,
was there Saturday morning to give
opening remarks and to run the
Boots for fallen military working dogs line the end of the route at the Fisher
House Hero and Remembrance Run, Walk or Roll at Fort Hood Saturday on Sadowski Field. The organization added the boots for the dogs this year.
route.
“I think it’s a terrific celebration
of life, really,” he said after finishing
the route.
Colt has done 16 Arlington Cemetery ceremonies and still keeps in
touch with some of the Families of
the Soldiers he’s laid to rest and running in this event is another way to
keep the memories of those men and
women alive.
Each year, a pair of bronze boots
is passed to the group or organi-
zation with the largest number of
participants as a trophy. This year,
the 1st Medical Brigade team just
edged out the Carl R. Darnall Army
Medical Center team in numbers
with nearly 200.
Many members of the CRDAMC
group had just gotten off of work
when they arrived for the run, including Sgt. Randall Smith and Spc.
Christopher Hill, who work in the
See Run, D4
Harker Heights wins at Killeen, hanging onto playoff hopes
BY KELBY WINGERT
Sentinel Sports Editor
The stormy Central Texas forecast last week moved most of the
high school football games in the
area from Friday night to Thursday night, including the matchup between Killeen and Harker
Heights. Instead of Friday night
lights, the teams played their game
at Leo Buckley Stadium on Oct. 29
– Thursday night lights.
As Texas high school football
teams entered their final two weeks
of games, the Knights and the Kangaroos were fighting for a small
chance to make it to the 6A Region
II District 12 playoffs this year.
A small chance, but still a chance
nonetheless.
The schools, with a 0-4 and 1-3
district record going into the game,
were and still are sitting at the bottom of the district standings.
Despite not winning a single district game previously this season,
Harker Heights was able to fight off
Killeen and win 38-10. Now, both
teams are still sitting at the bottom
of the standings, each with a district
record of 1-4.
Harker Heights junior quarterback Daniel Cole said it feels great
to finally win a game.
“We’ve had a really tough season,” he said. “We’ve come close
a lot, in a lot of our games and
(this game) really feels good because
Coach Edwards has preached to us
all week how we’re not out of it,
we do still have a chance to make
it to the playoffs and no matter
what happens, whether there’s a
possibility of us going, we’re going
to play hard. We’re going to show
that Harker Heights is a team to be
afraid of.”
The Knights had previously lost
at Ellison and at Shoemaker by just
3 points.
Despite leading 24-3 at halftime,
Cole wasn’t going to let the score
get to his team’s ego.
“I kept preaching all game that
it’s still 0-0, we gotta fight like it’s
still 0-0,” he said.
After the game, Harker Heights
head coach Jerry Edwards said
he felt great about how his team
played.
“It sets us up for another opportunity to play again to get into the
playoffs next week,” he said. “It’s
exciting because we’ve been so close
in so many games, it finally feels
good to be on the winning side.
The Knights will take on the
See Football, D5
Photos by Kelby Wingert, Sentinel Sports Editor
ABOVE, Killeen quarterback Kenneth Arnold looks to pass the ball during the
game against Harker Heights Oct. 29. TOP, Harker Heights quarterback Daniel
Cole passes to his receiver during the game against Killeen Oct. 29.