Our Fallen Hero Foundation: 5K Run/Walk

A tradition since 2014. Get a great shirt and show your speed!

Certified course The Our Fallen Hero 5k run/walk starts and finishes on 115th Street near the NW entrance of the Willowview Park parking lot. This is an out-loop-and-back course through Mokena’s scenic neighborhoods and includes a nice stretch along Townline Rd, aka “PCF Aaron Toppen Memorial Drive”.

Medals awarded to top male and female in each of the following age groups: 14 & under, 15-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70 & older.

For more information about the event and Our Fallen Hero Foundation, visit: https://www.ourfallenherofoundation.org/

Race Director, Brittany Oskielunas: ourfallenhero5k@gmail.com

Aaron Toppen’s Story: At the age of 19, PFC Aaron Toppen, a Mokena, Illinois native, went overseas for the first time in his life to Afghanistan. On June 9, 2014, in Zabul Province, he was on a mission to secure the area for the upcoming presidential election when his unit encountered Taliban resistance. Aaron, along with four other Americans and an Afghan interpreter, lost their lives in a tragic friendly fire incident.

Family and friends, intent on remembering Aaron and feeling a need to pay back and pay forward the incredible support experienced during the tragedy, began holding fundraising events within months of Aaron’s death. The Our Fallen Hero Foundation was formed as an official 501©(3) charity in Spring of 2018.

Our Fallen Hero Foundation’s purpose is to honor Aaron’s memory through charitable, benevolent, and patriotic activities. The charity is emphatically non-political.

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