Throughout the years, there have been a number of popular songs that sing about walking incredible distances for the person you love. The Proclaimers “would walk 500 miles,” and then “500 more.” Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton would “walk a thousand miles just to see you tonight.”
The romantic soundtracks of the past are the reality for one Alabama veteran who walks everyday to see “the most beautiful woman in the world.”
Seventy-year-old James Wright visits his wife every single day. She has dementia and lives in a nursing home, driving distance from his house.
“I don’t care if it’s raining, snowing or what, I’m going to see my wife. Even if I have to crawl,” James says.
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But after his truck broke down, crawling seemed like the only way James would make it to his wife on this particular day. The elderly man had not seen his wife in over a week, and decided he would walk along the highway to the nursing home—a distance that Lt. Charles Plitt of the Weaver Police Department describes as several miles.
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The off-duty police officer noticed James walking one day, looking dangerously exhausted. When he stopped to talk with him, the elderly man said he was unable to walk any further because he was recovering from a stroke.