LOCAL SOLDIER’S LIFE AND LEGACY LIVES ON. THE TENTH ANNUAL SPENCER ’C’ DUNCAN MAKE IT COUNT 5K HAPPENS NEXT WEEKEND. THE RUN HONORS THE FALLEN. AND PROVIDES HOPE FOR THE ONES WHO CONTINUE ON. >> THIS FEAR SET INITH ME W THAT PEOPLE WOULD FORGET OUR SON. REPORTER: SPENCER DUNCAN WAS KILLED 10 YEARS AGO WHEN HIS HEICOPTER WAS SH DOTOWN IN AFGHANISTAN. >> WE WANT TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER AND CONTINUE TO HONOR HIM AND HONOR THAT MILESTONE. REPOER:RT DALE AND MEGAN DUNCAN STARTED THE SPENCER C. DUNCAN MAKE IT COUNT FOUNDATION. >> IT HAS BEEN HEALING AND REWARDING TO WALK THIS JOURNEY SINCE WE LOST SPENCER THIS LAST 10 YEARS. REPORTER: THE FOUNDATION’S TENTH ANNUAL 5K IS JULY 31. >> IT DOES NOT TAKE AWAY THE PAIN. IT DULLS THE SHARP EDGES A BIT. IT DOES NOT HURT AS SHARPLY AS IT DID. REPORTER: PROCEEDS SUPPORT CHARITIES LIKE THE BATTLE WITHIN WHICH HELPS VETERANS ANDIRST F RESPONDERS BATTLING TRAUMA. >> THEY BELIEVED IOURN MISSION AND OUR WARRIORS. WHAT A BTEETR SYNERGY. REPORTER: THE FOUNDATIO N CONTINUES SERVING HERO LIKEES SPENRCE WHO ANSWER THE CALL KNOWING FULL WELL THSACRE IFICE THEY MIGHT HAVE TO MAKE. >> TO BE ABLE TO WALK THIS JOURNEY WITH OTHER PPLEOE WHO ARE HELPING US HEAL, IN A LOTF O WAYS, WE ARE HELPING THEM HEAL. THAT IS A PRETTY POWERFUL THING TO DO. ROB: THE MAKE IT COUNT 5ISK SATURDAY, JULY 31 AT NEW CENTURY AIR CENTER IN JOHNSON COUN.TY IT COSTS $35 TO REGISTER. VETERANS CAN PARTICIPATE FOR FREE.
‘Honor Spencer’: Memorial 5K celebrates life, legacy of fallen Olathe Soldier
10th annual Make It Count 5K honors the fallen while helping their families heal
Updated: 6:30 AM CDT Jul 22, 2021
To register for the Spencer C. Duncan Make It Count Foundation 5K Run, click here. For more information on The Battle Within, click here.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —
To register for the Spencer C. Duncan Make It Count Foundation 5K Run, click here.
For more information on The Battle Within, click here.
