On June 29, 1968, Jim Martinson was leading his infantry of Army soldiers through a hostile Vietnam. The jungle air was muggy. Warm rain poured. On Thursday, Martinson, 59, will celebrate the nation's independence as well as his own, competing once again in the Sadler's Ultra Challenge, a grueling 267-mile, eight-stage race from Fairbanks to Anchorage.
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