I am participating in the 2018 Miles for Mills 5K - Presented by T-Mobile on Memorial Day 2018 in Downtown Augusta, Maine to benefit the Travis Mills Foundation, IN MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND, MICHAEL W. SPENCER.
I thought this was a perfect way to remember Spence on this first Memorial Day without him. Hubs, baby Hope and I participated.. ok, watched, Miles for Mills in 2015, cheering everyone on, including Felicia Bell & her dad! As you know it was a dream of Spence’s to help other veterans so will you come alongside us to help make his dream come true?
Register to participate as part of our team (Love You Wicked Spence) and walk with me & Hopey, or if you are super motivated you can jog with others. Or you can even donate to our fundraising efforts and stand on the sidelines and cheer! Let’s come together to do what Spence did best and LOVE WICKED!
The Travis Mills Foundation supports combat-injured veterans and their families through an all-inclusive retreat located in the Belgrade Lakes region of Maine. Veterans and their families attend the retreat for a week at a time to enjoy a much-needed all expenses paid vacation, adaptive family activities, and meeting other veteran families to share the journey with on the road to a 'new normal' in life after injury.
The namesake for who our event was created for is US Army SSG (Retired) Travis Mills. In April 2012, while on routine patrol on his third deployment in Afghanistan, SSG Mills was critically injured by an IED. Although he is now a quadruple amputee, today SSG Mills is an active community member, father, husband, small business owner, author, and motivational speaker.
You can watch his documentary on Netflix at Travis: A Soldier's Story to learn more about why I am running.
I hope that you will support us in our efforts to honor veterans and their families. We live in a free nation thanks to their continued fight for our safety and security at home and abroad.