Army officer who died during Ironman event remembered as 'beautiful person'

Almost every weekend, his family said, Col. Gene Montague pushed himself to the brink of exhaustion. He ran marathons. He jumped through mud obstacle courses. He attended martial arts seminars, training until he became a fifth-degree black belt. But on Sunday, he died while swimming in the Tennessee River, the first leg of an Ironman competition in Chattanooga.