Bike ride raises awareness, offers therapy for injured vets

Bike ride raises awareness, offers therapy for injured vets
By Tim Haddock, Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 05/23/2008 11:07:39 PM PDT


The first day actor Mike Vogel was on the set filming "Cloverfield," he received word that his cousin, a sergeant in the Army, was killed in Iraq.

Sgt. Allen James Dunckley was "meant to be a soldier," Vogel said, noting that he started his military career as a Marine but was training to become an Army Ranger.

But he was killed in Salman Pak while trying to rescue three kidnapped soldiers last May.

"It set me on a mission, at that point, to be as involved and get as active as I possibly could in bringing awareness and any kind of help that I could to these guys coming home," Vogel said.