30 for 30 episodes terry fox biography

A quick review of tonight&#;s &#;30 for 30&#; coming up just as soon as I dip my foot in the ocean&#;

My father was Canadian, and many of my childhood vacations involved heading north of the border to visit my aunts, uncles and cousins on that side of the family.

One of my cousins had a set of Value Tales books, a series of inspirational stories for kids where, say, Eleanor Roosevelt would learn the value of caring or Thomas Edison would learn the value of creativity. I knew the names of most of the people who were the subjects of the books, if not their stories, but there was one I had never heard of before: Terry Fox, who learned the value of facing a challenge.

 

Since the book about him talked about him being Canadian, I asked my uncle&#;s family if they knew who Fox was, and a weird hush came over the room.

I could tell that he was very important to them, and as I got older I realized how important he was to most Canadians &#; just mentioning this documentary to my