[Open-Heads]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat Am]
[WRITER=jen]
[TAPE#=net]
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[ENG#1]
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[VO-NAT]
Radford police issued a warrant for a man suspected in a robbery and shooting earlier this week.
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[anchor=Joy]
and Roanoke police are investigating an early morning shooting that's left one man in critical condition.
We will have more on those stories in just a few minutes.
[2-shot toss to Hello]
[Roanoke-Shooting]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=jen]
[TAPE#=none]
[GRAPHIC=none]
A Roanoke man is in critical condition after being shot at an after hours party early this morning.
Police say an officer heard shots in the 33-hundred block area of Salem Turnpike just before three this morning.
When officials arrived on the scene, they found 32 year old Raghib Muhammad suffering from an apparent gun shot wound. Muhammad was taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Anyone with information on the shooting should call Crime Line
[SUPER=16-(540) 853-5959/Criminal Investigations Bureau]
or the Criminal Investigations Bureau at 540 - 853 - 5959.
[A 10 NEXT]
[Radford-Charges]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=dgr/jen]
[TAPE#=none]
[GRAPHIC=none]
Radford police have issued an arrest warrant for a robbery and shooting earlier this week.
[ENG#=4]
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Officials are looking for Aamir Darrin Lewis Brown in connection with the death of Brian Keith Gray.
The shooting happened around 10:45 Tuesday night on Downey Street, several blocks from Radford University's campus.
Brown is considered armed and dangerous.
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[ENG#=1]
[vo-phone number]
Police are asking anyone with information to call your local police department, or the Radford P-D at (540) 731-3620.
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[School-Shooting]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=sat am]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=NET]
[GRAPHIC=NONE]
[ENG#=2]
An argument during a charity basketball game ends in gunfire outside a suburban Baltimore school.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Baltimore Co., MD]
Four student were shot outside Randallstown High School. Police say ongoing dispute between two groups lead to the altercation.
It started as an arguement --but when one of the participants left he returned with three other men --and a gun.
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[SOT:38]
[IN Q=The driver]
((THE DRIVER... HAD FOUR OR FIVE SHOTS, PASSED THE GUN TO SOMEONE ELSE FIRED SOME ADDITIONAL SHOTS))
[SUPER=01-Bill Toohey/Baltimore Co. Police]
[RUNS=15]
[OUT Q=fired some additional shots]
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[VO-NAT]
One person has been arrested police are still looking for three others.
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[Campbell-Fatal]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=jen]
[TAPE#=04-]
[GRAPHIC=none]
[ENG#=3]
A Rustburg man was killed in a single vehicle accident in Campbell County.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Campbell Co./Last Night;]
Police say 33 year old Alton Tweedy, Junior was driving an illegal truck, that had bald racing tires and no tags,
when he wrecked last night.
Officials say Tweedy was driving on Candler's Mountain Road near Dove Lane when he ran off the road, hit a mailbox then continued off the road and struck a tree.
Police say he was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown through the windshield.
Tweedy was pronounced dead at the scene.
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[11Rogers]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=khu]
[TAPE#=03-53 TC2:02:17]
[GRAPHIC=None]
[ENG#=3]
Ever since 77-year old Terry Rogers was killed in January, Roanoke police appear to have focused their investigation on her older son.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Roanoke]
The only charge against Christopher Rogers, however, has been possession of cocaine.
The 56-year old part-time school teacher pled "no contest" to that single charge in court yesterday.
[SUPER=04-January 14]
When police found one tenth of a gram of powder on his night stand, Rogers told them he bought it because he was upset by his mother's death.
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[SOT 2:30:25]
[IN Q=And since then]
((BOB RIDER/ROGERS' ATTORNEY; AND SINCE THEN, HE HAS VOLUNTARILY TAKEN URINE SAMPLES AND WHATEVER TESTS HE'S NEEDED TO TAKE, AND ALL OF THEM HAVE BEEN NEGATIVE. HE'S DONE QUITE WELL IN THAT REGARD ADDRESSING THAT PROBLEM.))
[SUPER=01-Bob Rider/Rogers' Attorney]
[RUNS=:12]
[OUT Q=addressing that problem.]
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[VO-NAT]
The investigation of TERRY Rogers' death continues.
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[11Foley]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=syo]
[TAPE#=04-06 TC1:54:51]
[GRAPHIC=none]
[ENG#=4]
A Patrick County dog-breeder plans to appeal a conviction on animal cruelty charges.
Clarence Foley was found guilty yesterday in general district court of performing a cesarean sections on two dogs without anesthesia.
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[VO-NAT :19]
Foley, a former dog-breeder and industrial engineer, has no medical certification.
[SUPER=03-Stuart;]
The 61-year old took responsibility for just one of the operations, saying it was an emergency and that icy weather kept him from seeking medical help for Buffy the poodle.
Foley's niece says she can't imagine he'd do anything inhumane.
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[SOT 20:08:19 - 20:08:29]
[IN Q=I though he did the dogs...]
((TERESA SPENCER/FOLEY'S NIECE: I THOUGHT HE DID THE DOGS REALLY GOOD. EVERYTIME I'VE BEEN OVER THERE THE DOGS START BARKING AND WANTING HIM TO COME AROUND.))
[SUPER=01-Teresa Spencer/Foley's Niece;]
[RUNS=:10]
[OUT Q=and wanting him to come around.]
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[VO NAT :08]
Neither Foley, who was whisked away by friends, or his lawyer had much to say about the judge's decision.
But the Commonwealth's Attorney did.
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[SOT 20:10:06 - 20:10:12]
[IN Q=I thought it was the correct one.]
((CHRIS CORBETT/COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY: I THOUGHT IT WAS THE CORRECT ONE BASED ON THE EVIDENCE. THE COMMONWEALTH WAS PLEASED AT HOW ITS CASE CAME OUT, WAS DEVELOPED.))
[SUPER=01-Chris Corbett/Commonwealth's Attorney;]
[RUNS=::06]
[OUT Q=came out, was developed.]
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[VO-NAT]
Foley was sentenced to two months in jail and a one thousand dollar fine.
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[ANCHOR=Joy]
[SS=HOLD]
He's also prohibited from owning dogs or cats for the next three years.
[11Powerline-Suit]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=dse]
[TAPE#=none]
[GRAPHIC=none]
Opponents of a proposed A-E-P powerline still have not given up their fight.
The Sierra Club plans to file a lawsuit to overturn A-E-P's permit to build the line across national forest land.
The 765 kilo-volt line would run from Wyoming County West Virginia to Jackson's Ferry in Wythe County.
The Sierra Club says the forest service's 2002 decision to allow the line to cross public land violates federal law and forest service regulations.
[Iraq]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=sat am]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=none]
[ENG#=1]
Another U-S soldier has now been charged for abusing Iraqi prisoners.
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[VO-NAT]
Army Private First Class -- Lynndie England is shown in photographs smiling and pointing at naked prisoners. She is charged with conspiracy and assault.
Friends and family from her West Virginia hometown say this is not like here, and she must have been taking orders.
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[SOT:55]
[IN Q=I don't believe Lynndie]
((I DON'T BELIEVE LYNNDIE WOULD BE DOING ANY OF THE ACTIONS THAT YOU SEE
IN THE PHOTOS. IT'S NOT LIKE HER TO BE LIKE THAT))
[SUPER=01-Destiny Goin/England's Friend]
[RUNS=06]
[OUT Q=to be like that]
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[VO-NAT]
Right now England is confined to her base at Fort Bragg where she's five months pregnant.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is taking responsibility for the what happened, but has no plans to resign.
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[SOT:33]
[IN Q=For those Iraqi]
((FOR THOSE IRAQI'S WHO WERE MISTREATED.. MY DEEPEST APOLOGY))
[SUPER=01-Donald Rumsfeld/Secretary of Defense]
[RUNS=05]
[OUT Q=deepest apology]
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[VO-NAT]
Rumsfeld testified on Capitol Hill yesterday. He says the scandal is only going to get worse.
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[ANCHOR=Joy]
[GRAPHIC=none]
Meanwhile, fighting continues in Iraq today British troops came under attack in Basra. Gunmen loyal to a radical Shiite assaulted the governor's building and exchanged fire with the troops. At least one person was injured in the attack.
[Afghan-Attack]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=sat am]
[WRITER=jsu]
[TAPE#=NONE]
[GRAPHIC=NONE]
A U-S marine has been killed in overnight attack in Southern Afghanistan. Military officials say U-S forces got into a direct fire engagement with anti-coalition militias.
Another Marine was also injured in the attack.
[11XGR-Budget]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=ssm]
[TAPE#=04-07 TC1:44:37]
[GRAPHIC=VA Budget]
[ENG#=2]
The marathon General Assembly session has finally come to a close .
And Virginia finally has a new two year budget.
Steve Smallshaw has more from Richmond.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=natsot ]
[SUPER=03-Richmond; :00]
[SUPER=@markWarner; :14]
[SUPER=01-Del. Vince Callahan/(R) McLean; :21]
[SUPER=01-Del. Kirkland Cox/(R) Colonial Heights; :43]
[SUPER=01-Del. Preston Bryant/(R) Lynchburg; 1:01]
[SUPER=01-Del. Ben Cline/(R) Lexington; 1:10]
[SUPER=@ssm1; 1:21]
[RUNS=1:31]
[OUT Q=News7, Richmond.]
(( [natsot 14:32:50]
((GOVERNOR, GOOD TO SEE YOU SIR..))
[RUNS= 03]
Better late than never.
Around 2:30 Friday afternoon, a House and Senate committee delivered Virginia's next two-year budget to Governor Mark Warner, nearly two months behind schedule.
[SOT 14:34:23]
((GOV. MARK WARNER: I THINK THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE IS GOING TO BENEFIT A TREMENDOUS NUMBER OF VIRGINIANS AND I'M PROUD OF YOUR EFFORTS.))
[RUNS= 07]
[OUT Q=of your efforts.]
[SOT 3:28:24 HOUSE TAPE 1]
((VINCE CALLAHAN/R-MCLEAN: INDEED IN MY 37 YEARS IN THE HOUSE I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A STARK DIFFERENCE IN THE STARTING POINT OF EACH BUDGET.))
[RUNS= 07]
[OUT Q=of each budget.]
For 115 days they haggled over a 59 billion dollar spending plan that includes a billion and a half dollars in new taxes.
The process threatened to split the Republican majority between those willing to compromise and those who say the democratic process was subverted.
[SOT 14:41:00]
((KIRKLAND COX/R- COLONIAL HEIGHTS: I THINK THAT'S THE LESSON IS YOU'VE GOT TO CAMPAIGN ON THIS STUFF OR ELSE YOU'RE GOING TO END UP HAVING THIS EVERY TIME. YOU JUST CAN'T SAY YOU'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING, DO SOMETHING, DO SOMETHING AND NOT RAISE TAXES AND SUDDENLY COME DOWN HERE AND DO IT AND THEN TRY TO JAM IT DOWN PEOPLE'S THROAT.))
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[OUT Q=down people's throat.]
Lynchburg's Preston Bryant, who helped craft the compromise, says he still has a home in the G-O-P.
[SOT 14:42:50]
((DEL. PRESTON BRYANT/R-LYNCHBURG: I CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS THE BEST PARTY TO GOVERN VIRGINIA AND I'M NOT GOING TO WAVER FROM THAT. THE PARTY WILL SURVIVE AND WE'LL DO WELL.))
[RUNS= 09]
[OUT Q=we'll do well.]
[SOT 14:46:58]
((DEL. BEN CLINE/R-LEXINGTON: WE ARE THE MAJORITY IN VIRGINIA SO WE HAVE DIVERGING VIEWS. THE MAJORITY OF THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS VOTED AGAINST THIS BUDGET, BUT WE'LL COME TOGETHER AND GOVERN THE STATE EFFECTIVELY FOR YEARS TO COME.))
[RUNS= 11]
[OUT Q=for years to come.]
[Standup ]
((And their work's not done yet. Lawmakers will have to return on June 16th to vote on any amendments Governor Warner makes to the budget.. changes he says will be mostly minor. Steve Smallshaw, News7, Richmond.))
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[OUT Q=News7, Richmond.] ))
[11RU-Visitors]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=rde]
[TAPE#=04-13 TC36:26]
[GRAPHIC=none]
[ENG#=3]
Though the budget earmarks more money for higher education, Radford University's tuition is still going up.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Radford;]
The Board of Visitors raised tuition and fees by 15-percent yesterday for in-state undergraduates.
Room and board is also going up by 4-percent.
That means it will cost an in-state undergrad an extra 848 dollars a year to go to the University.
The measure was also supported by the student body.
Officials say Radford remains one of the most affordable schools in the state, but is still also one of Virginia's most under funded Universities.
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[2Open-Heads]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat Am]
[WRITER=jen]
[TAPE#=net]
[GRAPHIC=none]
[roll cold out of the open]
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[VO-NAT]
[ENG#1]
[SUPER=#4070;weekend headline banner]
Coming up on News 7 Saturday Morning.......
A Radford man is wanted in connection with a shooting and robbery earlier this week on Downey Street.
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[VO-NAT]
[ENG#2]
And a Rustburg man is dead after his vehicle ran off the road in Campbell County and hit a tree.
We will have more on those stories in just a few minutes.
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[2-shot toss to Hello]
[B'burg-Fire]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=jen]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=fire???]
A birds nest is being blamed for a fire that damaged a home in Blacksburg last night.
Officials say the fire started around 9:20 in the garage of a home on the 3-thousand block of Lancaster Drive.
Flames quickly spread to the attic and a second floor bedroom of the main house.
Firefighters had the fire under control in about 20 minutes.
Officials say birds had built a nest in the light fixture and the heat from the light caused it to catch fire.
No one was injured in the blaze.
[11Plane-Crash]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=rle]
[TAPE#=04-14 TC1:04:14]
[GRAPHIC=F-15 Crash]
[ENG#=4]
Investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a military jet to crash in Franklin County Thursday night.
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[VO-NAT - :14]
[SUPER=03-Franklin Co.; ]
The F-15 Strike Eagle went down in woods off of Factory Hill Road. Both airmen aboard ejected and were rescued safely.
Now about 60 men and women from the Air Force are looking for debris- cataloguing and marking each piece they find.
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[SOT - 20:34:21]
[IN Q=We're securing the scene...]
((CAPT. JEFF JONES/U.S. AIR FORCE SPOKESMAN; WE'RE SECURING THE SCENE AND OBVIOUSLY MARKING THE DEBRIS, YOU SEE THEM OUT THERE WITH FLAGS. AND THAT IS JUST PART OF SECURING THE SCENE SO WHEN THE INVESTIGATION BOARD COMES THEY WILL TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND GATHER ALL THE INFORMATION.))
[SUPER=01-Capt. Jeff Jones/U. S. Air Force Spokesman; ]
[RUNS=18]
[OUT Q=gather all the information.]
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[VO-NAT - :23+]
Air Force officials say the investigation could take weeks or months.
As far as any hazardous materials- Franklin County safety officials say they are happy with how clean up is going.
They say the danger to residents, if any, is minimal.
The jet was not carrying any munitions.
It was based at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina.
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[11Bedford-Plane]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=jda]
[TAPE#=04-03 TC1:31:42]
[GRAPHIC=None]
[ENG#=1]
Engine trouble forced a Waynesboro pilot to make an emergency landing in Bedford County.
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[VO-NAT]
[SUPER=03-Bedford Co./Yesterday]
Pilot Jerry Bass and his passenger weren' t injured yesterday as the two-seater landed on Heathwood Drive.
But the plane was damaged when it drifted into the grass and tipped onto its nose.
Bass built the experimental plane himself, and has logged 165 hours in the cockpit. Unsure of what caused the problem, Bass planned to haul the damaged plane home by truck.
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[11Fall-Bedford]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=jmc]
[TAPE#=]
[GRAPHIC=none]
A worker who fell from the roof of a house in Bedford Thursday has died.
Police say 47-year-old Sanford Lewis of Lynchburg was fixing a roof when he slipped and fell, landing on a concrete driveway.
He died last night at Carilion-Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Lewis worked for Liberty Home Improvements in Lynchburg.
[11Wall-Ride]
[ANCHOR=Joy]
[NEWSCAST=Sat AM]
[WRITER=jwi]
[TAPE#=04-11 TC1:02:27]
[GRAPHIC=None]
[ENG#=2]
A group of Wytheville natives is gearing up to make a memorable trek cross country.
But it's not just a joy ride. As Jennifer Wishon reports, they want to make sure Americans remember those still missing in combat this Memorial Day.
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[SOT]
[IN Q=The town of Wytheville]
[SUPER=03-Wytheville; :00]
[SUPER=01-Trent Crewe/Wytheville Mayor; :11]
[SUPER=01-Jackie King/Wytheville Vice Mayor; :39]
[SUPER=01-Frankie Scott/Run for the Wall; :56]
[SUPER=01-Robert Atwell, Sr./Run for the Wall; 1:23]
[SUPER=@Jennifer1; 1:33]
[RUNS=1:50]
[OUT Q=JW, News 7, Wytheville]
((The town of Wytheville is getting revved up
((NATS OF FRANKIE STARTING HIS BIKE))
as a handful of residents prepare for the trip of a lifetime.
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[SOT 16:10:59]
[IN Q=Run for the wall]
((TRENT CREWE/MAYOR: RUN FOR THE WALL STARTED IN CALIFORNIA WITH SOME VIETNAM VETS WHO WERE HEADED TO WASHINGTON TO RAISE AWARENESS OF POW'S AND MIA'S AND FOUR YEARS AGO THEY HAD TO MAKE TWO ROUTES - A SOUTHERN ROUTE AND CENTRAL ROUTE AND THE SOUTHERN ROUTE HAD TO COME THROUGH HERE.))
[RUNS= 13]
[OUT Q=come through here]
Wytheville is one of nine stops on a cross country motorcycle trip from California to Washington D.C.
The goal is to remind Americans of the thousands of soldiers still missing in action and to honor those who've paid the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
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[SOT 16:13:57]
[IN Q=It's really awesome]
((JACKIE KING/VICE MAYOR: IT'S REALLY AWESOME TO SEE THEM GET OFF 81 AND COME DOWN FOURTH STREET TO WITHERS PARK WITH THEIR POW AND MIA AND AMERICAN FLAGS ON THEIR BIKES.))
[RUNS 09]
[OUT Q=on their bikes]
Each biker has his own reason for riding.
Frankie Scott was inspired by the upcoming dedication of the WWII Memorial.
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[SOT 16:20:35]
[IN Q=My father who served]
((FRANKIE SCOTT: MY FATHER WHO SERVED IN WWII AND HE RECEIVED THE PURPLE HEART. HE IS NOW DECEASED AND I FEEL IT'S AN HONOR TO HIM AND HONOR TO OTHERS IN WWII WHO DIED OR WERE INJURED IN BATTLE.))
[RUNS14]
[OUT Q=injured in battle]
Scott and other riders know they're in for an emotional and physically draining trip.
But feel a calling to remind the government they haven't forgotten and want their fallen and captured comrades brought home.
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[SOT 16:18:44]
[IN Q=When we stop at]
((ROBERT ATWELL SR.: WHEN WE STOP AT THE SCHOOLS THE SPECIAL THING FOR ME IS TO SEE CHILDREN COMING OUT WITH AMERICAN FLAGS AND TO KNOW THAT TEACHERS ARE TEACHING PATRIOTISM TO OUR SMALL CHILDREN.))
[RUNS09]
[OUT Q=our small children]
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[SOT 16:31:42]
[IN Q=Run for the wall]
((JENNIFER WISHON/JWISHON@WDBJ7.COM: RUN FOR THE WALL WILL ACTUALLY MAKE A STOP IN WYTHEVILLE MAY 26TH. AREA RESIDENTS ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO COME OUT AND GIVE THE VETERANS A WARM WELCOME BEFORE THEY HEAD OUT TO ROANOKE THE NEXT DAY.))
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[OUT Q=the next day]
Jennifer Wishon, News 7, Wytheville.))
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