48 Adults and 15 kids "put their pride aside" - and hung themselves out to dry on Saturday
Dear Doug,
Fight Gone Bad III is over and there is no possible way to thank you for what you've done for two groups of people who live in the shadow of the "sound bite of the day." The 2 million American families living with prostate cancer who shout back daily at a world that ignores them because it believes it's an "old man's disease" even though there are thousands of men under 50 diagnosed and dying every year. The other group you fought for are our returning soldiers, more than 30,000 of whom returned with traumatic injuries to a country that largely doesn't want to know about them, or pay them their due.
Yesterday you did something about that, and in a world that minimizes all but the most grandiose gestures, you refused to be minimized. CrossFit challenges us all to be better, not just physically better, but better. My personal belief is that it's the shared suffering, whether it's Fight Gone Bad, losing a limb to an IED or chemotherapy that commands respect. It's not speeches and empty promises, it's being a person who suits up, shows up and leaves nothing on the table that makes a difference.
I've got over 500,000 reasons to thank you, but then it would be me and that doesn't count for very much. From the more than 30,000 wounded warriors and the 2 million families who thought we forgot, we didn't.
Fight Gone Bad II- 2008
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Thank you CrossFitters everywhere! We'll keep the website going as long as donations are coming in.
Respectfully,
Scott Zagarino
Athletes for a Cure
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