Look what showed up in today's Washington Post. I read this at breakfast today and was cranked up about it all the way into the store today.

I'm normally pretty chilled out, but this was more than I could bear. So I fired off a Letter to the Editor today, and we will see if it gets published.


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Unbelievable. Did Hank Stuever really write this as part of his Television column in "reviewing' the Stand Up 2 Cancer Telethon?

"That's the thing about cancer in America: It is sacrosanct. Getting it, fighting it, coming back from the brink of it and even dying of it these are the sacramental rites of cancer, America's secular religion. "

You think its a 'rite' of cancer? You are so wrong.....you trivialize fund-raising for this disease, because a group of people are volunteering their time to do what they can to raise money for it? Doesn't matter if they are celebs or not....what have YOU done lately?

I've had 70% of my liver removed. Two feet of my small intestine, my gall bladder, and more lymph nodes than can be counted as I struggled to stay alive from this disease. I raise money for research, and I hold newly diagnosed people who are scared and frightened half out of their mind with the news they are terminal. I Volunteer. All money for cancer research is good money, regardless of how it is raised.

I hope that you never have to experience cancer, or that you have to sit in a doctors office and be told you have 12 months to live. If you did, you would see things differently, I guarantee it.

You have overstepped your boundaries and owe your readers an apology, though I doubt you will ever see that you do.

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The offending article in the paper:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...091007652.html

Please send 'Hank' an email if you think he's full of crap.....he needs to hear it.