19th Bataan Memorial Death March - please help!

[Lowe]

Just posting this up to raise a bit of awareness and hopefully get some sponsorship money for a friend of mine.

One of my friends Mike is a Captain in the Royal Engineers - you may remember me posting about him a few months back. He's been serving in Afghanistan, and unfortunately was injured at the end of last year when an RPG air burst about 6 feet from him. He took shrapnel in both arms and legs, and was in a pretty bad way for some time. He's back on his feet now, but is still left with some paralysis in his limbs. It's a miracle he's walking at all - and he puts a lot of it down to the help he received from the 'Help for Heroes' charity.

As a thank you to this wonderful charity, Mike is going to attempt the Bataan Death march. This is a full 26.2 mile desert marathon in New Mexico under extreme conditions, and he's doing it in military gear with a 35lb bergen on his back - and aiming for a sub 6 hour time. This event is more than a challenge for someone fully able, let alone someone who was held together with staples a few months ago! More details of the event can be found here:

Bataan Memorial Death March

Please dig deep and help sponsor Mike, so this brilliant charity can continue helping our wounded heros and their families. You can sponsor him directly by clicking here:

Justgiving - Mike Holgate's Fundraising Page

Thanks!

[Zak33]

Very very brave bloke

[Guy]

Wow! Donated all I can not much but every little helps!

Lowe let us know how he gets on?

[Lowe]

Will do - the bloke's a tower of strength, even if he's a shortarse.

He's got the mental strength to get through this - I'd love to have a crack at it, might see about having a go next year myself

[Funkstar]

Donated

[Guy]

I doubt id even be able to do a quater of that, so my hat well and truely does go off to him.

[nichomach]

Chucked in a bit, hard to think of a better cause - and the publicity'll be good for HforH as well, I guess.

[Lowe]

Thanks again guys - most appreciated.

[Guy]

Dont mention it, im genuinely happy to help. I stumbled across Help for heroes a while back when James Blunt was on Top Gear and it came up then. Ive been meaning to send off one of those parcels of stuff for troops serving abroad for a while now, just never got round to it. Will dig out the stuff later and 2mrow morning march down the post office

[Disturbedguy]

Just donated. Good luck to Mike.

[pauldarkside]

Great stuff - good luck Mike

Donated and Dugg - hope this encourages more people to help.

[Lowe]

Incidently - if anyone is a member at other forums please pass this on or copy/paste the thread and try to raise awareness for Mike!

[nichomach]

FB'ed and blogged; will spread it around.

[Carlh]

Shall donate when I get home over the weekend

[J4MES]

Gets my vote - that will be one hell of an achievement..

[beanbandit]

Having family in the forces makes you think more about what happens in war and the support they need if they get injured. Gladly donated.