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Hall Marine on walking trek for suicide awareness
Man making daily 22-mile hikes toward Camp Lejeune
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Hall County native and U.S. Marine Shane Stephens is making a series of hikes toward Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to raise awareness about suicides among veterans.
With a beard down to his chest and an American flag flapping behind him, Shane Stephens is a man on a mission of awareness for veterans. “We’ve been calling him Forrest Gump, because that’s kind of what he looks like,” Stephens’ father Doug said. A Hall native and a Marine, Stephens finished his seventh day Wednesday of daily 22-mile hikes, a number representing the often-cited statistic of veteran suicides each day.