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Journeyman Tribal member and Marine Corps Veteran Steve Bobb will walk from Table Rock in southern Oregon to Grand Ronde to raise awareness and money
for a planned Veterans' Memorial in Grand Ronde. Bobb, who walks nearly five miles daily on his lunch hour, is the artist for the memorial that will honor all Veterans (Tribal
members and member's of the community) from the three communities of Grand Ronde, Willamina and Sheridan. Bobb will begin his journey on February 23 with the
hopes of reaching Grand Ronde 14 days later.
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Yellow Moon This full moon rising over the Tribe's Grand Meadows
housing community cast a bright glow on a recent crisp, winter night in Grand
Ronde.
Marine Veteran Will Walk For
Honor And To Raise Awareness
Tribal member Steve Bobb will walk 265
miles from Table Rock to Grand Ronde to raise
money for a planned Veterans' Memorial.
"Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors home, car,
gym, office, shops disconnected from each other. On foot every
thing stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces
between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interi
ors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up
against it."
Rebecca Solnit
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000)
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We all walk, some more
than others. Our feet
carry us to the mailbox
everyday. The phone rings and
boom! We walk, maybe run to an
swer. I personally walk down the
hall to refill my coffee mug.
You'd never think walking could
play such an integral part in our
lives. Like breathing, we walk al
most arbitrarily.
Peter Jenkins in his pre-network
days hiked across the country,
chronicling the adventure in A
Walk across America. Paul
Theroux trudged around Britain in
The Kingdom by the Sea. Aborigi
nes from Down Under used to en
gage in the walkabouts, in many
ways paralleling the vision quests
of many North American Natives.
To many people walking has al
ways entailed something signifi
cant, nothing mundane. For Tribal
member Steve Bobb, walking
means everything. And when he
and Smoke Signals Editor Brent
Merrill set out February 23 to walk
from Table Rock in southern Or
egon to Grand Ronde, you'll know
something special is about to un
fold. It will be a walk for Tribal
members, a walk for Veterans, and
above all, a walk for himself.
Steve Bobb began life in 1949,
born to Wilson Bobb, Jr. and Faye
Riggs of Grand Ronde. He grew
up around Willamina and Grand
Ronde, not getting into too much
trouble. But he had a date with
fate, so to speak, in 1968 when a
small Southeast Asia country for
merly called French Indochina
dragged America into the war on
communism.
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