Cancer story gets national attention
A video of Jack Hoeger, an 8-year-old rural Cedar Rapids boy, was posted Thursday in a blog on the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s Livestrong Web site, www.livestrong.org
The video of Jack’s cancer survival story, “Get to Know Jack,” was made Saturday by a family friend who operates a Dubuque Web site company and was posted on YouTube, said Jack’s father, Marty Hoeger, 35.
I think that this video is fantastic. I found it really moving. It’s really sad that an 8 year old boy had to go through such a horrible experience yet he survived and is able to speak about what he went through. It’s really inspiring.
This video has been watched more than 12,000 times and had 80 comments. This is a great video and I’m really happy that it has been posted on YouTube.
What do you think? All comments welcome…
April 8, 2008 at 9:38 am
I think it is great that the stories like the story of Jack can get such a resonance in the web. It is hard to imagine another low cost, low effort way to get 12000 people’s attention and understanding. I would not call youtube too rude, as it is never too rude to help the people.
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April 14, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Hello Mandy,
What an exciting website you have created!
Have you seen Mark anywhere?
Eitan