Yankee Pest Control’s Murphy to Run in Marine Corps Marathon

MALDEN, Mass. — Galvin Murphy, Jr., of Yankee Pest Control, is preparing to run in the Marine Corps Marathon 2016 on Oct. 30, to raise funds for the Massachusetts Iraq and Afghanistan Fallen Heroes Fund.

Murphy, a Marine and a combat-disabled veteran who was twice deployed to Iraq, has been running five or six days a week in preparation for this marathon, which will be his first.

The Massachusetts Fallen Heroes was established in 2010 and is comprised of combat veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and are committed to memorializing their fellow service members who did not return home. Massachusetts Fallen Heroes broke ground on a permanent public tribute in fall 2014 to honor the Commonwealth’s brave servicemen and women who died while in service to this grateful nation.

A close friend of Murphy’s named Kyle, was a U.S. Marine pilot who lost his life in combat. He left behind a wife, daughter and at the time an unborn son. Building and maintaining this memorial is important for Murphy so that people like Kyle’s family have a place to go, to sit and remember or to wonder what could have been.

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