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Related: About this forumO'Malley and One Magnificent Bastard on Veterans Day
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Martin O'Malley ?@MartinOMalley 18h18 hours agoToday I called a Magnificent Bastard walking across America. Thanks for your service, Jon. We are cheering you on. http://on.fb.me/1lknBuq
Martin O'Malley ?@MartinOMalley 15h15 hours ago
Read more about my conversation with @1MagBastard making his way across the country for his comrades: http://omly.us/1WNa92U #VeteransDay
On Veteran's Day, O'Malley called a Maryland veteran walking across the country
Martin O'Malley paid homage to Veterans Day on Wednesday by calling a College Park Md. man and former Marine who is walking across the country to honor the comrades he lost in Iraq.
Jonathan Hancock, a 32-year-old man who left the Marines in 2009 after seven deployments, began the walk to California on Sept. 11. O'Malley caught up with him in Pembroke, Ga., about 35 miles west of Savannah, and the two spoke for a few minutes.
"It was really a stand up thing for a person who's running for office to take time out of his day to call me," said Hancock, who declined to say whether he is leaning toward any candidate for president next year.
Hancock, who attained the rank of staff sergeant, served with 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, based at Camp Pendleton, and was repeatedly deployed to Iraq and Africa. He expects to reach California sometime close to the general election next year.
Hancock said he struggled to return to civilian life after more than eight years in the Marines, and had attempted suicide.
"This wasn't a political thing," Hancock said of the walk, adding that he did not alert media to it when it began. "This was me doing this because it's something I wanted to do -- to clear my head, really, and to get everything straight. I was in a nasty, dark place."
Hancock was featured in a local television news broadcast in South Carolina, an early presidential primary state where O'Malley has been working to build momentum. Hancock said he believes an O'Malley staffer saw the story and took note of the fact that he is from Maryland.
O'Malley was able to connect with Hancock through another Marine who worked on a campaign veteran's task force. That person had served with Hancock.
read: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-omalley-calls-md-veteran-on-a-mission-20151111-story.html
Jonathan ?@1MagBastard
@MartinOMalley thanks for the call sir! And thank you for your support! Raider 3-2.
related:
Martin O'Malley's MASSIVE VA reform plan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251787034
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