{"id":351780,"date":"2026-09-20T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351780\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:50:08","slug":"runners-carry-american-flag-for-250-miles-from-nyc-to-washington-dc-in-9-11-tribute-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351780\/","title":{"rendered":"Runners carry American flag for 250 miles from NYC to Washington DC in 9\/11 tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND)  \u2014 One Flag Forward, a 250-mile relay run to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9\/11, concluded in Washington D.C. on Thursday. The relay, which lasted five days, started on Sept. 12 at the Intrepid Museum in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>A single American flag was carried by several runners over the 250 miles to the National Mall in the nation&#8217;s capital, with some runners traveling the full 50 miles per day for the entire duration of the run. <\/p>\n<p>The run was to honor the 2,977 lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. <\/p>\n<p>Runners were encouraged to wear blue for the event, and donations made from the run are divided equally between two organizations, Wear Blue: run to remember and Team Red, White &amp; Blue, which are nationally recognized nonprofits serving the military-connected community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 One Flag Forward, a 250-mile relay run to commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9\/11, concluded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-351780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}