I've answered the call to be a hero! I'm having my head shaved to stand in solidarity with kids fighting cancer, but more importantly, to raise money to find cures.
I was moved to participate by what was really a very brief yet intensely moving view into the life of a child with cancer. My nephew Joseph recently undertook a religious rite of passage, and celebrating this rite with him was another young boy whose brother, Edward Migliore, was fighting cancer. I sat behind Edward and his family in the church and was moved by their quiet dignity, and by Edward's participation in a day for his brother in the face of one of the least dignifying and most frightening things one has to face - one's own mortality.
Edward is a survivor. He was recently featured in an article in the South Brunswick Patch (http://southbrunswick.patch.com/articles/young-south-brunswick-cancer-survivor-inspires). Note in particular the statistics cited at the end of the article - that forty children are diagnosed with cancer every day, and of these 40, 7 will not survive. Help St. Baldrick's change those odds.
Please support me with a donation to the St. Baldrick's Foundation. This volunteer-driven charity funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government.
Your gift will give hope to infants, children, teens and young adults fighting childhood cancers. So when I ask for your support, I'm really asking you to support these kids. Thank you!
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