AMARILLO---From Amarillo to Austin, and everything in between.
The Lone Star Trail of Heroes is running a near 600 mile journey to honor fallen Texas soldiers, veterans and the wounded. Families from all over Texas came to Amarillo this weekend to watch runners take off from the starting line at the Texas Panhandle War Memorial.
 "I love it, it's keeping all these soldiers memories alive, all these gold star mothers that are here I just feel their pain," says Aurora Fernandez who drove in from Abilene.
443 miles, to honor each fallen Texas hero Like Sergeant Ruben Marcus Fernandez from Abilene who died in Iraq Last October.
"I was like Marc, not right now, not now, not during this war, I said they're going to send you to Iraq, he goes exactly, that's why I'm doing it," says Fernandez.
The journey starts here and goes all the way to Austin.
This is the first year the organization is having a run cross Texas.
The idea came last summer after another group, Run For The Fallen, had a ran from California to Arlington Cemetery.
"We just wanted to bring it home, we knew many many Texas families could not run because it was in a different state, and since Texas has lost the second largest only behind California we want the families to know they're loved one will never be forgotten," says organizer Lauren Mcintyre.
The run will end on May 25th which is Memorial Day.
The next stop is Lubbock, then Wichita Falls.
To get a route and see how you can help click here .