congress declares september as prostate cancer awareness month.....

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c palmer - 05 Aug 2005 20:16 GMT

before congress ended their session, they passed the measure making
september prostate cancer awareness month. this is not an automatic
thing. it has been done for the past four years and if it is not passed
each year, then the declaration for prostate cancer awareness would
simple go away and be a thing of the past.

so, please remember this fact when september comes, because we have
fought so hard to get awareness this far.

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional
"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc

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I. P. Freely - 05 Aug 2005 20:39 GMT

Do these clowns think PC will "simply go away and be a thing of the past"?

Jeez . . . and yet they can't get anything VITAL done. They're a global
embarrassment, but the PC awareness bit beats nothing.

I.P.

> before congress ended their session, they passed the measure making
> september prostate cancer awareness month. this is not an automatic
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> so, please remember this fact when september comes, because we have
> fought so hard to get awareness this far.

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Stephen Jordan - 05 Aug 2005 20:52 GMT

On August 5, I. P. Freely responded to Curtis:

> Do these clowns think PC will "simply go away and be a thing of the past"?
>
> Jeez . . . and yet they can't get anything VITAL done. They're a global
> embarrassment, but the PC awareness bit beats nothing.

Tell that to the BCa folks and the homosexuals (AIDS), who struggled so
hard for so long to raise awareness of their illnesses. And succeeded in
getting research funds committed, lots and lots of funds. And getting
people in to their medic's to be checked (something that sometimes seems
futile when it comes to guys with a genito-urinary problem).

But despite the naysayers, I will not give up; neither will many others of
like mind.

Regards,

Steve J

"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy
friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am
involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell
tolls; It tolls for thee."
-- John Donne

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David S. - 05 Aug 2005 21:42 GMT

I see on the bulletin board at work that this was national breast feeding
week. Did you all miss that?

> before congress ended their session, they passed the measure making
> september prostate cancer awareness month. this is not an automatic
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
> http://community.webtv.net/PALMER_ENT/doc

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judamd@aol.com - 05 Aug 2005 23:14 GMT

Didn't know until I saw in the paper this morning a picture of a bunch
of women breast feeding in front of our city hall. They, along with
other women in nearby towns, were trying to set a world record for the
most women breast feeding at the same time. I guess they weren't
allowed to count the unknown millions of Chinese, Indians, Africans, et
al. Since there were only a few hundred known participants they fell
about a thousand short of the record, held, I believe the article said,
by a whole lot of Australians.
Dave Perry

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I. P. Freely - 05 Aug 2005 23:49 GMT

I hope no one expects US to demonstrate during our awareness month.
Even my closest friends revolt at my threat to "show 'em my scar".

I.P.

> Didn't know until I saw in the paper this morning a picture of a bunch
> of women breast feeding in front of our city hall. They, along with
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> by a whole lot of Australians.
> Dave Perry

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