Join Me in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
From time to time, I will be posting this on the front page on my blog. The reason is simple. I get a lot of new visitors each week, and need to raise a large amount of money.
It’s a great cause, so please read on…
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It’s all about karma, and making the world a better place.
On August 8th of this year, I will once again lace up my shoes for the Chicago Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk, and start an emotional journey that will take me 60 very long and grueling miles from the suburbs to downtown Chicago. This walk will be hot, this walk will be painful. There will be sweat, and there will be tears.
Most importantly, this walk will benefit women and help to save lives.
I am required to raise a minimum of $2,200 to participate in the event. By the time that you finish reading this, two more women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and another one just died from it. In fact, while I am walking those 60 miles, 110 women will die from this horrible disease. 110 families will lose a mother, or a daughter, or a best friend.
That is why I walk.
I don’t walk to get recognition. I don’t walk because I want people to think of me a hero. I walk so that a little girl can grow up and spend time with her mother. I walk so that a mother can watch her daughter walk down the aisle at her wedding. I walk so that I don’t have to console another friend while a part of her life was taken too soon. I walk because I am physically able to, while others are not. I walk because I have been given so much, and I want to give back as much as I can.
I walk, because I cannot walk away…
CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT ME AND HELP ME RAISE $5,000 FOR THE EVENT
Comments
7 Responses to “Join Me in the Fight Against Breast Cancer”
Hello Brian,
I respect your decision, that you want to help women with breast cancer. But you should ask what the $5.000 will be spent for. Another chemotherapy? Did somebody ever ask for the reasons of breast cancer? Did somebody ever ask why so many women have to die and why there seems to be no improvement?
Please read this:
http://www.germannewmedicine.ca/documents/breastcancerarticle.html
Thank you very much!
The walk is a great event and I don’t want to take anything away from its positive goal, but I agree with Adi that the participants deserve more information how the money will be used.
The point I want to add is that, although breast cancer is a deadly illness, for years it has not been the top killer of women. Heart disease kills more women than breast cancer.
Thanks Adi and Ed - I suppose I figured if anyone was interested they would have taken a look at the main site for more info. Nonetheless here’s a link to some information regarding the event.
Hey Brian you can count me in for support. Before we moved back to Columbus we helped my wifes best friend train for the walk year after year.
I don’t know where Adi & Ed are from and I don’t want them to take this the wrong way, but there is plenty of information out there regarding the walk for breast cancer. This is a really big event in the Chicagoland area. So I hope that Adi & Ed will take a close look at the site you provided and see that it’s worth participating in the walk for breast cancer.
Thanks
Tillman
Tillman,
No one (at least myself) was questioning the walk’s goal of helping people deal with the impact of breast cancer nor the need for fund-raising.
The Susan G. Komen For the Cure, the recipient of 85 percent of the money raised, took in $207.5 million in 2006 and spent around $31 million of that on fundraising and administrative expenses. That ratio is pretty decent, giving the charity a four-star rating, according to Charity Navigator.
According to Wikipedia (and you can take the information with a grain of salt), Susan G. Komen funds clinical research into breast cancer, as well as having spent over $1 billion raising the awareness of breast cancer.
While fighting breast cancer is a noble cause, it has a bit become like the fight against AIDS — public awareness is already extremely high and the illness is well-funded.
The real emphasis needs to be on orphan diseases that neither have the publicity, the public support, nor the pharmaceutical interest in finding a cure.
The other issue is that there should be walks to fight heart disease, because it — not breast cancer — is the main killer of women today.
(By the way, I was born and raised not far from Chicago.)
Brian,
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I am also sending out a email to all my folks on my site tonight challenging them to make this our “Corpsman.com Charity Donation each year” as long as you do it.
I would do it but I am 80% disabled after 24 years as a Navy Medic. Rheumatoid Arthritis keeps me from going 60 miles in 3 days but darn it I am going to try to help you out. Look for Corpsman.com donations.
Good Luck!
Darrell
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Darrell