BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 16 -- The Uniformed Services University issued the following news release:
Before sunrise on September 11, members of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) community gathered on the track in Bethesda, in the dark and pouring rain, for the September 11 Memorial Brigade Ruck/Run - the first of two events the university held to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks and the 2,977 lives lost. But many members of the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine (SOM) Class of 2028 were away on clinical rotations and could not attend.
So they created their own.
Participants chose their own distance and their own effort: one mile, two miles, or a 5K, some of them rucking the course in uniform under a weig...