DrewP
09-11-2003, 01:34 PM
Last week I read an article in the October issue of Runners World about a guy named Reza Baluchi. Who since May 11 has been running across the country and arrived today in NYC at Battery Park after laying a wreath at the bedrock base of the World Trade Center site. Click here and scroll down to Feature Story (http://www.runnersworld.com/home/0,1300,1-0-0-ZNEWS----07-22-2003,00.html) for a preliminary on the article about Reza.
I was so moved by his story, that I wrote him last week. Dave the guy who has helped Reza from the beginning, and has been driving the support RV responded, sent me pictures, and invited me and whoever else to come down for the finish, which I did. I was totally amazed at the way this young man has not only run across this great country to spread the message of PEACE, but he has practically circled the globe on his bicycle covering 46,000 miles, through 54 countries, on six continents since he left Iran in 1996. His official web site is http://www.run4peace.com/reza/index.html
My questions are:
Was it worth it?
Will people actually take in his message or will they just blow it off like so many other causes in this world begging for our attention?
I hate to be so cynical, but I as much as I'd like to think this man made a difference, all I keep thinking is how difficult if not impossible it was for him to generate any media coverage outside of the Arab-American community. No one I know even knew about this.
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For being the #1 market, New York radio sucks. With out Ron and Fez and Opie and Anthony, we have nothing!!!
I was so moved by his story, that I wrote him last week. Dave the guy who has helped Reza from the beginning, and has been driving the support RV responded, sent me pictures, and invited me and whoever else to come down for the finish, which I did. I was totally amazed at the way this young man has not only run across this great country to spread the message of PEACE, but he has practically circled the globe on his bicycle covering 46,000 miles, through 54 countries, on six continents since he left Iran in 1996. His official web site is http://www.run4peace.com/reza/index.html
My questions are:
Was it worth it?
Will people actually take in his message or will they just blow it off like so many other causes in this world begging for our attention?
I hate to be so cynical, but I as much as I'd like to think this man made a difference, all I keep thinking is how difficult if not impossible it was for him to generate any media coverage outside of the Arab-American community. No one I know even knew about this.
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For being the #1 market, New York radio sucks. With out Ron and Fez and Opie and Anthony, we have nothing!!!