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Video: Peyton Manning aids and honors Chattanooga military victims
By John Brasier
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Peyton Manning’s role helping to raise $1 million for families of victims of a July 16 shooting spree that killed four Marines and a Navy sailor in Chattanooga, Tenn., and a silent tribute he scrawled to the victims on the inside of his football cleats are mentioned in an ESPN 30 For 30 short titled, “Chattanooga Strong.”
Manning started the “Chattanooga Heroes Fund.” The Denver Broncos QB wrote the initials of each murder victim inside his cleats.
“It makes you angry,” Manning, a former Tennessee star who maintains a home in Chattanooga, said in the piece. “And so you try to funnel that into trying to help. Been able to have a couple conversations with them over the phone to check on [them], see how they’re doing and to let them know that we started this fund. Hopefully they can take some comfort knowing that a lot of people are thinking about them and praying for them and care about them.”
