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By Dave Andrusko Editor's note. My family will be on vacation through the end of this week. I will be posting an occasional new story, but for the most part we will be re-posting columns that ran over the last year. Many will be strictly educational while some will...
By Dave Andrusko Lauren Hill has died. The 19-year-old Mount St. Joseph student, who fulfilled her dream of playing in a college basketball game in spite of a viciously aggressive brain cancer, inspired millions with her “never give up” attitude. She sure inspired me....
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Lauren passed away this morning. This afternoon I will be posting my tribute to a hero of mine. The following appeared last month in NRL News Today. Cincinnati television station WCPO 9 has done some terrific reporting on a hero of...
By Wesley J. Smith Brittany Maynard was lauded internationally–at A-list movie star decibels–because she committed suicide rather than face the difficulties of terminal brain cancer. But 19-year-old Lauren Hill–with the exact same disease–received far more subdued...
By Dave Andrusko Cincinnati television station WCPO 9 has done some terrific reporting on a hero of mine: Lauren Hill. I just learned moments ago from a story post at WCPO.com that Lauren, suffering from terminal brain cancer, taped an interview with “The View”...
By Dave Andrusko I visit Lauren Hill’s Facebook page less often than I should. I have three adult daughters of my own and if they were to face a terminal illness, no father could wish for greater courage than Lauren has displayed or that his own family could nurture...
By Dave Andrusko I was in line at the grocery store, looked to my left, and there, on the cover of People Magazine, was Dan Diaz, the husband of Brittany Maynard, who took her own life November 1, 2014. Maynard, suffering with a terminal brain cancer,...
By Dave Andrusko Maybe it’s simply that I am the father of three daughters and the father-in-law to another, but few stories have moved me as much as the bravery, the look-truth-in-the-face courage of Lauren Hill. Lauren is only 19, a freshman at Mount St. Joseph...
“Because I feel like I've done God's work, what he sent me here to do. I feel like maybe, I'm not done yet” By Dave Andrusko Kudos, congratulations, and sincere thanks to WKRC 12, a local station in Cincinnati, Ohio, for a magnificent profile of Lauren Hill,...
By Dave Andrusko Talk about something coming all together. Lauren Hill is the courageous freshman basketball player who on top of battling terminal brain cancer fought to achieve what seemed to be an unattainable goal, given her condition—playing in a college...