Terry Fox was just a teenager when cancer took his leg. Most would have mourned quietly. Terry chose to fight back — not for himself, but for others still trapped in hospital beds like he once was.
With a prosthetic leg that often caused him searing pain, he set out to run across Canada. He ran day after day, blood soaking through his socks, his body screaming for rest. He ran until his lungs filled with cancer, forcing him to stop just outside Thunder Bay.
He never finished his dream. He died at only 22 years old.
But Terry’s spirit never died. Every year, strangers lace up their shoes and run where he could not, proving that even the shortest lives can leave the longest shadows.