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Catherwood’s family, who reside in Paris, Tenn., aspire to build a 25-cabin lakeside resort with each cabin named for one of the 25 Marines killed from 3/5, the “Darkhorse Lodge” a place for “men and women to gather and talk with others “who have walked in ther boots.”
On Oct. 14, 2010, Joey’s unit was heavily engaged in a nightmarish en- filade of automatic weapons fire inter- spersed with the detonations of Impro- vised Explosive Devices set by the Tali- ban fighters that dominated Helmand Province in Afghanistan.
Diner owner Jin Hur’s son, Marine Cpl. Richard Hur, served with Joey in the 3/5 during the bloody “Million Steps” deployment, so named because the unit took a million steps on foot, fighting in the brutally contested Hel- mand Province.
Jin Hur, a marathon runner, and his friend, Army paratrooper veteran Juan Blanco, were out working the grill again on Saturday with volunteers from Crazy Otto’s.
The strains of the Star Spangled Ban- ner rippled across the tide of a couple of hundred participants.
The battle cry “Get Some!” shuttled through the crowd at the start line be- hind Rosamond High School, and hun- dreds were off and running toward the foothills that Joey Lopez-Pratti loved to run in, humping a ruck sack, in prepara- tion for his entry into the Marine Corps in March 2009.
Walking or running in the Joey Lo- pez 5K can be something of a spiri- tual experience. I have run the race, and walked it. I have been passed by younger — and older — runners. I have walked the course with a Viet- nam veteran brother, and been left in the dust panting by Marine veteran Da- lia Sanchez, who went on to be a Na- tional Guard company commander in Afghanistan and now counsels veterans with mental health issues.
It is always beautiful to see everyone gathering by the flags, and pennants, and honor guard, early on a Saturday morning before the heat rises, and the
sun is bouncing its rays of the pinks and browns of the soil and rock formations above Rosamond, the foothills where a fine young man ran, preparing for the challenge of his lifetime.
Joey’s ordeal, his fate, and his ren- dezvous with destiny, are memorialized
on State Highway 14, that portion of the Antelope V alley Freeway that threads past the hills of Rosamond. Erected with volunteer funds and authorized by legislation, the big highway sign commemorates the Joey Lopez-Pratti Memorial Highway and his brothers of
the 3/5 Darkhorse Regiment who were killed in Helmand Province in Ameri- ca’s longest war.
The spirit of Joey is alive and run- ning still in the brown and pink foothills above Rosamond.
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