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INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2008 IAFF BURN FOUNDATION MARINE CORPS MARATHON TEAM! As a charity partner of the Marine Corps Marathon, the IAFF Burn Foundation reserves a limited number of entries for IAFF members and supporters to participate in the Marine Corps Marathon on October 26, 2008, as a member of the IAFF Burn Foundation Marine Corps Marathon (MCM) Team. Runners accepted for the IAFF Burn Foundation MCM Team must commit to raise $1,000 by October 26 (race day), with proceeds benefiting the IAFF Burn Foundation. Click here to register. The registration fee is $100. Once you register, you will be directed to our online donation service to set up your own fundraising page. Team members receive an official IAFF Burn Foundation MCM Team race singlet and T-shirt and are invited to a pasta party the night before the race. In addition, the IAFF Burn Foundation sponsors a hospitality tent in the Charity Partners Village at the race finish for team members and their families. Team runners will also receive a Marine Corps Marathon participant T-shirt, champion chip and goodie bag. Participation in the Marine Corps Marathon is a great way to support the IAFF Burn Foundation. For more information on how you can apply to join the Marathon Team, call (202) 824 – 1558 or email
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. Bob Kuhn: Running For A Cause Bob Kuhn loves a challenge and a good cause. A member of Strongsville, OH
Local 2882, he’s found both in the IAFF Burn Foundation Marine Corps Marathon team. Not only has Kuhn run the Marine Corps Marathon every year for seven years as part of the IAFF team, he has finished first among male team runners and raised nearly $30,000 for the IAFF Burn Foundation. A member of the United States Marine Corps for 22 years—15 of which were active duty — Kuhn never had time to run a marathon. | |
But after retiring from the Marine Corps and joining the Strongsville Fire Department he read about the IAFF Burn Foundation Marine Corps Marathon team and signed up to realize his long-time goal to run a marathon. Always an avid runner, he trained for and ran his first marathon—the Marine Corps Marathon—in 2000 as part of the Burn Foundation team.
But the Marine Corps Marathon was especially meaningful for Kuhn this year. He ran in memory of Marine Corporal Jeffrey Boskovitch, a member of a Scout Sniper
team who was killed along with four other members of his team by insurgents in Iraq on August 1, 2005. Corporal Boskovitch was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment — a unit that has sustained the most casualties in Iraq to date. Kuhn hadled this regiment as a Scout Sniper Reconnaissance Platoon Commander until a year before its deployment to Iraq.
Finishing the 26.2-mile course in 3:00:19, Kuhn insists that winning isn’t his goal. He says his participation in the marathon is a superficial contribution compared to what burn survivors endure, and has vowed to run as a member of the IAFF Burn Foundation Marathon team every year until he retires from the fire service. He also wants to recruit more IAFF members to step up to the challenge and run for the IAFF Burn Foundation team. In 2007, Kuhn enlisted seven runners from his local and neighboring jurisdictions. Eventually, he wants to bring a busload of runners to
this annual event.
To that end, Kuhn is challenging his IAFF brothers and sisters to join the IAFF Burn
FoundationMarine CorpsMarathon team. For information on how to apply for the
2008 Marathon Team, call (202) 824-1558 or email
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