Friday, October 8, 2010

The Terry Fox Foundation

Terry Fox is a Hero who ran 143 days and 5,373 kilometers 3,339 miles across Canada from east to west. He ran for cancer research. So that the future generation hopefully wouldn't have to suffer the same way he did. His journey lasted 143 days. His legacy has lived on with terry fox runs every year since 1981. Millions of people have joined world’s largest one day fundraiser for cancer research, and have raised over 500 Million dollars in cancer research. Terry Passed away October 28th 1981, at age 22 due to cancer spreading to his lungs. It broke the hearts of everyone, so each year we finish that run for Terry. His legacy will live on forever.

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