Brother Samsonite has hit upon a fabulous idea. It started with the idea to do a 24 hour run to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. Samsonite intended to run laps around the track at Yukon High School (his Alma Mater) for 24 hours and get people to pledge money for laps or miles.
Then the thought occured, “what if other people come out and run laps and raise money for the laps they run?” So this became the 24 Hour Brigade. An army of normal people, walking or running some number of laps/miles, for pledges and donations, all supporting the WWP.
“How many miles could get completed by those people? A thousand?” That is where it started to get interesting. What if companies (or individuals) pledged 50 cents per total mile completed? What about $1? The numbers get big fast.
As soon as people started hearing about this they said, “we could just run where we are.” So satellite runs started cropping up. That, along with the easy solution WWP provides for individual fund raising, makes this idea infinitely scalable.
So, March 20, starting at 1700 (that’s 5:00 pm for the rest of us) and continuing until March 21 at 1700, Samsonite will be running to raise money. Hopefully a lot of people will run with him, both in Yukon and wherever they are, and together all those miles will raise a lot of money for the men and women who gave so much to serve our country.