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>> his pace as we followed it, four miles an hour. he averages houghly 16-miles a day. but that varies as he devotes time to family members like brian and marsha moon. >> just still -- i still expect him to come through the door. >> their son chris was a baseball standout whom the atlanta braves drafted out of high school. instead he went to college and after a semester joined the army. >> said i want a tougher challenge, and i want to serve my country. >> he died serving his country. after a roadside boom exploded in afghanistan. >> i got to believe our boys are looking down on this and proba...

>> what chris is doing anytime awe. >> the organize's cofounder put himself through his own grueling challenge last year, walking more than 4,000 miles across the u.s. he says chris ring came to him afterwards volunteering his swimming skills to continue the mission. >> doing the great lakes, doing something, and he came to, swim the mississippi. i'm like, okay. >> doing good. supporters out here help. >> family from the pittsburgh area joined ring on the water spending their vacation with him in honor of a fallen hero back home. >> this is probably a once in a lifetime event to see someone sw...

Chris ring is already leaving his mark on the mississippi river. >> i feel like this is exactly where i need to be, exactly what i'm suppose supposed to be dog right now. means the world to me. >> amazing. the organization is "legacies alive" and is trying to build a memorial for chris moon. the baseball player who died in afghanistan. another guy risked his life to try to fly through a hole in a mountain. nothing but a wing suit on his back. first he measured the narrow space, only about eight feet weight and then strapped a camera on to his helmet, claimed to the top of the swiss mountains...