Photos: Army Veteran walking from California to South Carolina passes through Chattanooga

November 13, 2019 at 9:16 p.m. | Updated November 14, 2019 at 12:52 p.m.

by C.B. Schmelter , Staff photos by C.B. Schmelter

Staff photo by C.B. Schmelter / Van Booth, center, and a group of supporters walk across the Market Street Bridge towards Edley's Bar-B-Que on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 in Chattanooga, Tenn. Booth, a retired U.S. Army staff sergeant, began walking from California to South Carolina in February to honor traumatized and suicidal veterans. He calls his journey Walking for Life.
Staff photo by C.B. Schmelter / Van Booth, center, and a group of supporters walk across the Market Street Bridge towards Edley's Bar-B-Que on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 in Chattanooga, Tenn. Booth, a retired U.S. Army staff sergeant, began walking from California to South Carolina in February to honor traumatized and suicidal veterans. He calls his journey Walking for Life.

Van Booth, a retired U.S. Army staff sergeant, who is walking from California to South Carolina to honor traumatized and suicidal veterans, met with supporters and walked from the Chattanooga Lifestyle Center to Edley's Bar-B-Que in Chattanooga on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019.

Booth began his journey, which he calls Walking for Life, in February.

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