Season Finale: Powerful Words - Scenes From The 2025 Run To Home Base
About this episode
The episode celebrates the success of the 2025 Run to Home Base event and discusses its impact on veterans and their families.
Today on HBN, we close out Season 9 with a salute to you all, a Grateful Nation, for showing up and supporting the mission of Home Base. We look forward to bringing you new conversations and content in the Fall, and we'll welcome back to the mic, Dr. Ron Hirschberg, as we look to Season 10. On July 26, 2025, 3,000 runners and walkers participated in the 16th annual Run to Home Base, presented by RTX, either in person at historic Fenway Park or virtually around the country. To date, this year's event has raised over $3.6 million - a record-breaking figure for our most critical annual fundraiser - in support of Home Base's mission to heal the invisible wounds of war for Veterans, Service Members, Military Families, and Families of the Fallen at no out-of-pocket cost to them. In this episode you'll hear from Red Sox Broadcaster Tom Caron, who was joined during a Red Sox pregame by Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks and Home Base Captain Kristi Hendriks, both who were guests on this podcast a few episodes ago, as well as Bekah Salwasser of the Red Sox Foundation, and Jack Hammond of the Home Base Program to discuss the impact and importance of the Run to Home Base event. Next, you'll go to…
People in this episode
Guests: Dr. Ron Hirschberg, Tom Caron, Liam Hendriks, Kristi Hendriks, Bekah Salwasser, Jack Hammond
Topics covered
- Veterans support
- fundraising
- community event
- mental health
- sports
Keywords
- Run to Home Base
- fundraising
- veterans
- mental health
- Fenway Park
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Home Base, Red Sox Foundation, RTX
Places: Fenway Park
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