Candi Higley

(JAMES ROTH/The Associated Press)
Greg Pratt shows several of his marathon medals at his house in Orem in November. Since 2001, Pratt has been sending his marathon finisher medals to the Ladley family of Coltsneck, N.J. James P. Ladley worked on the 104th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center and was killed on Sept. 11, 2011.

Orem man's marathon medals become tribute to 9/11

OREM -- While watching the New York Marathon in 1991, a friend told him he was too old and fat to run a marathon. Greg Pratt, a 71-year-old Orem resident, took that as a challenge. He began running the next day.

He never thought that running marathons would get him to where he is today -- happily married, healthy and with a unique tie to a family in New Jersey who were directly affected by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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