Marine walks across Texas to support child with brain cancer [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas — It takes about 80 miles to get from Austin to San Antonio. Jim Hickey, a retired U.S. Marine, is getting there on foot.

Hickey said it’s going to take 11 days to get to his destination if he keeps up his pace, but that this isn’t anything he hasn’t done before. Hickey’s walked more than 9,000 miles in the last 26 years for cancer research and awareness.

“Everybody bikes,” Hickey said. “I figured with doing these long distances then it’s gonna raise more awareness for cancer.” 

Hickey took his first trek in 1998 after his father died of prostate cancer.

“I actually saw my dad take his last breath,” Hickey said. “Then if that wasn’t bad enough, six months later, my brother was diagnosed with prostate cancer.”

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