After spending 25 years in the Army and 3 years as a civilian, I still cannot stand my hair to touch the top of my ears. For those that know me, what I have been doing for the past 10 months seems out of character, my hair is LONG! Now let me tell you why I have endured growing this long hair.....
In late December 2015, our daughter's second grade class was given some really bad news, one of her classmates was diagnosed with cancer. This little boy though was more than a classmate to her, this was the boy since kindergarten that she was going to marry. She had talked about him for three years and whenever you saw him he was always smiling and laughing.
Our daughter worried about him and there were long discussions about cancer, why God would make him sick since he was so nice, why couldn't he come back to school, etc. These conversations are hard enough to have with adults, but a child....no one should ever have to talk to a child about a classmate/friend having cancer.
He fought the good fight but 9 months later God took him home for the healing he could not find here. His class was brought together (parents too) where they were told that he had passed. It is a day that for those there will never be forgotten, those children, some in shock said nothing, others couldn't stop crying, some crawled up in parents and teachers laps and wept, parents and teachers crying. NO ONE should have to go through this!
We had heard about St. Baldrick's through a co-worker who worked the local events and another coworker was a shavee. My wife wanted to shave her hair and every year we would tell her no. So this year I decided to grow mine and be a shavee instead. Help me raise some money for St. Baldrick's to help them with childhood cancer research, donate today!