RSSMike Ehredt's cross-country trek honors fallen in Iraq
Mike Ehredt, an Army veteran, is planting a flag a mile during a 4,000-plus mile run in honor of service members who have died in Iraq.
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Although he only looked like a solitary jogger on U.S. Highway 12 Tuesday, Mike Ehredt was actually anything but.
The U.S. Army veteran is on a cross-country quest to commemorate American service deaths in Iraq by planting small flags across the country. He started May 1 in Astoria and plans to finish in Maine on the Atlantic coast later this year.
"It's just a personal thing, to create a visible holding of hands across America," he said as he worked his way along the highway.
The Idaho resident plans to place more than 4,000 miniature flags alongside roadways across the country, each bearing a yellow ribbon with the name, rank, age and home town of a service member.
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