After four combat tours in Afghanistan, retired Army Col. Chris Kolenda wanted to honor his fellow soldiers. He went from not riding a bike in 20 years, to riding 1,700 miles across the U.S.
After four combat tours in Afghanistan, retired Army Col. Chris Kolenda wanted to honor his fellow soldiers. He went from not riding a bike in 20 years to riding 1,700 miles across the U.S. Kolenda biked across the country to visit the gravesites of the six fallen paratroopers from the unit he commanded. He has their names engraved on his bike.
"I feel a lot of gratitude for the service and sacrifice of our six fallen heroes. Gratitude for the 800 who had my back for 15 months," he said. "One of our paratroopers, he now lives in a dumpster. He's a meth addict," Kolenda said."In our unit alone, we've lost more to suicide and substance abuse than enemy fire. We had one of our paratroopers die two weeks ago by suicide.
"I don't think I ever gave myself the permission, the room to grieve for him," Kolenda said."I'm imagining Dave next to me. Of course, he would have beat me up that mountain. He would have been taunting me the whole way."
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