WATCH: Marine veteran Micah Herndon, who ran the Boston Marathon to honor three friends killed in Afghanistan, crawls to the finish line. - NBC10Boston
When a Marine veteran collapsed near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, he pushed forward and crawled to the end in honor of his fallen comrades.
"If I get a heat cramp while running or my feet hurt or I am getting exhausted, I just keep saying their names out loud to myself. They went through much worse, so I run for them and their families," Herndon told the newspaper ahead of the race. "It was kind of second nature,'' he said Tuesday, a day after finishing his third marathon."They instill 'adapt and overcome.' Any situation you're in, that's what you do."
Herndon, who was injured in another blast in 2010, got into running after coming home as a way to deal with post-traumatic stress. He hopes he can inspire other veterans.
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