NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — At 65, retired teacher Richard Albero from New Jersey found himself asking the big questions: “What’s it all about? Why am I here? What have I done?”
“As I said to one perseon, I think it’s like finding your soul,” Albero told WCBS 880’s Sean Adams. “What the next step is after that I don’t know.”
His soul searching led him on an odyssey, a 1,200-mile trek on foot from Florida to New York to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit group that helps severely injured service members.
“The pain and sacrficies (service members go through), you just want to pay them back in some small way,” Albero said.