Soldier In Iraq

Taylor Janes makes a lonely run in southern

Colorado, contemplating a fallen soldier each mile.

It’s only 7:30 a.m., but the sun is already blazing in southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley, as 24-year-old Taylor Janes runs by curious cattle and alarmed prairie dogs on the shoulder of the quiet two-lane highway.

With his aching shin-splints taped, the former Summit County resident jogs up to the next mile marker on U.S. Hwy. 160 and ties an American flag with an attached laminated card reading “Jeremy Christensen, age 27, Nov. 27, 2004” to the post. Christensen, a U.S. Army Specialist from Albuquerque, N.M., was the 1,247th American soldier to be killed in Iraq when a roadside bomb outside Baghdad destroyed his tank.

Run across America honors soldiers killed in Iraq Summit Daily News, CO - 8 hours ago Christensen, a US Army Specialist from Albuquerque, NM, was the 1247th American soldier to be killed in Iraq when a roadside bomb outside Baghdad destroyed ...