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Terry Fox - c.1980

submitted by djsunkid

1 decade 7 years 8 months 1 week ago

Terry Fox is a symbol of bravery in the face of incredible odds. In 1977 he lost his leg to cancer. Three years later, he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He started in Newfoundland in April of 1980. He got as far as Thunder Bay Ontario before he had to stop. The cancer spread as far as his lungs, preventing him from going any further. The cause was taken up by the media and celebrities, and he managed to raise $24 million. Today, millions of Canadians still participate in the Terry Fox run to raise money for cancer research.

The audio of him explaining why he has to stop is... it just chokes me up. What an incredible individual. What an incredible Canadian.

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Thats Harsh

That's hardcore.

Music is Stan Rogers' "Turnaround".

Terry is a true hero. This would have been a very deserving entry into the Canadian World Domination.collective.

*promote

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Sunday 25th March 2007 (promotion called by gold star member Zifnab)

coupland says...

Sometimes one upvote isn't enough. Somehow i missed this first time around, thanks dj for posting and zifnab for promoting...

One of *Canada's finest.

Adding video to channels (Canada) - requested by Zifnab.

It's times like this I wish the words, "My Hero" weren't so clicheed and sarcastic. Can you imagine? You lose your leg, and then you decide, "I'm going to run across the second biggest country in the world.

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