Florida Run for the Fallen makes 79 stops across Jefferson, Madison and Suwannee Counties

Laura Young [email protected] More than 20 flag-bearing, yellow-clad marathoners worked their way through Jefferson, Madison and Suwannee Counties with an escort of law enforcement and Veterans' groups on Friday, Feb. 11 and Saturday, Feb. 12, as part of this year's Florida Run for the Fallen event. The group began their 170-mile journey to honor war heroes at the Florida Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Tallahassee at 6:30 a.m. that Friday and followed a route that would bring them to the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Wall by 1 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 13. Along the way, they stopped at “Hero Markers” spaced one mile apart to give tribute to groups of individual Florida serv