A walk spanning 3,000 miles across America, starting Sunday at the base of Newport Pier, will honor a man known as the founding father of the U.S. Army 10th Special Forces unit, better known as the Green Berets.
Retired Col. Aaron Bank, 94, of San Clemente founded the covert guerrilla warfare unit in 1952, following his work during World War II as a special operations officer at the Office of Strategic Services, a predecessor to the CIA. He has written two books on his aborted mission to kidnap Adolf Hitler.
