OCEAN CITY — The New Jersey Run for the Fallen Foundation is an organization of runners and their support teams whose mission is to run one mile for every New Jersey resident in the armed forces who has been killed during combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heading north from Cape May, the runners briefly pause at each mile marker in homage to a specific service member and their family. The group will stop and stay in Ocean City at the end of the first day. The Run will continue over the next day three days, until they reach the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Holmdel, NJ.
The military runners will stop at each of the Hero Markers listed below and a very brief ceremony will take place.
We ask that as many Ocean City area residents as possible come out to one or more of the Hero Markers identified below to support the runners and reflect on the sacrifices of these service members and their families.
Service Members – Hero Marker Locations – Times:
Capt. Maria I. Ortiz – Corson’s Inlet Bridge at the State Park sign on the Ocean Drive – 3:26
Sgt. Hector L. Ortiz Jr. – Corson’s Inlet Bridge at the State Park sign on the Ocean Drive – 3:26
S/Sgt. Ingles DosReis – 55th St. & Central Ave. – 3:29
Spc. Michael Franklin – 46th St. & West Ave. (new Legion bldg.) – 3:52
Cpl Terry Ordonez – 39th St. & Central Ave. – 4:02
L/Cpl Jon T. Hicks Jr. – 29th St. & Wesley Ave. – 4:15
SSgt Aaron Nelson Brown – 21st St. & Wesley Ave. – 4:28
1st Lt. Robert Wilson Collins – 15th St. & Ocean Ave. – 4:38
Staff Sgt. Stephen J. Sutherland – Veteran’s Memorial Park, 5th St. & Wesley Ave. – 4:51
9/11 Pentagon Heroes – Veteran’s Memorial Park, 5th St. & Wesley Ave. – 4:51
Spc. Ronald H. Wildrick – Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6650 – 5:05
World War II Heroes – Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6650, 15th St. & Bay Ave. – 5:05
Sgt. Keith T. Buzinski – Bay Ave between 24th St. & 25th St. – 5:18
Sgt. Alessandro “Sandrino” Plutino – American Legion Post 524, 3304 Bay Ave. – 5:30
US Marine Heroes: Beirut – American Legion Post 524, 3304 Bay Ave. – 5:30
