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Fundraising Commitment Reached — Goal Ahead!
Friday 7th Aug Thank you so much to everyone who responded to the call for donations before today’s due date for our minimum fundraising commitment. I’ll keep pushing toward my larger goal before we ride next month!
Support Livestrong, Friends of Firefighters, and the Boston Fire Cancer Foundation
Monday 20th Jul
I’m Riding Boston to NYC for the First Responders Still Fighting
Monday 16th Mar
On September 11, 2001, I was in a conference room at work in Portsmouth. Like millions of Americans, we sat stunned, watching the unthinkable unfold — unable to function. The collective shock of that day remains with all of us who lived through it.
My fiancée M-J was closer. She was in lower Manhattan with her infant son, heading toward the towers, and watched them fall. The fire station on her block lost five men. She volunteered at Ground Zero, where the smoke and debris hung in the air for months.
We both know what that day meant, and what it keeps costing the people who ran toward the danger.
This September, the 25th anniversary year of 9/11, M-J and I will ride 343 miles from Boston to New York City with a group of first responders, cancer survivors, and advocates. Each mile honors the 343 firefighters who died that day. The finish line is Ground Zero.
This ride is organized by Friends of Firefighters, Livestrong, and the Boston Fire Cancer Foundation, supporting first responders who are still fighting cancer, trauma, and the invisible toll of years spent in service. Nearly 50,000 people have now been diagnosed with a 9/11-related cancer, and the total number who have died from those cancers now exceeds the 2,977 killed that day.
I understand resilience. I survived testicular cancer in 2003 and lost my wife Judy to multiple myeloma in 2013, when our four children ranged from high school to college. All in good time, improbably and beautifully, I fell in love again — with M-J, who I’d known since our first day at Brown and rediscovered through reunion planning, as we gradually recognized the pull between us. A breast cancer survivor herself since 2021, M-J and I have logged many miles together: Livestrong Challenge rides with the Cyclists Combating Cancer team I joined in 2004, RAGBRAI, the Five Boro Bike Tour. By the time we clip in for this ride, she’ll be my wife. This one carries all of that and something brand new.
We’re riding as cancer survivors and as people who remember what 9/11 felt like — and who understand that for thousands of first responders, it never ended.
Your donation supports the programs that keep those people going. Please give what you can and share this page if you know someone else who might want to support us, too.
Thank you.
ShareGrateful For The Support Of My Donors
$100
Paul & Francis Lodge
$250
Cathleen Scerbo
Such an amazing cause, thank you for all you do! Congratulations to you and MJ! What wonderful news!
$220
Anonymous
$56.18
Stephanie Brown
$100
Patricia Levine
Thank you Scott for riding to support such an important cause!
$39.09
Joan Tibbetts Tibbetts
$57.38
Jane Smalley
$30.03
Diane Vorpagel
You both are an inspiration ~ thank you for all you do! Have a great ride!
$100
John Wallace And Lessa Brill
$160.56
Gregory Pratt
Best to you and M-J, Scott!
$111.25
Laura Vuolo Rochford
Go Fight Win! Thanks for all you do!
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Chuck Hatch
$111.25
Lisa Lacasse
$57.38
Mary-jo Haronian
Here’s to five wonderful years, my love—and many more. ❤️💛
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Suz Bash
You are both ROCK STARS! Thank you for all you do!
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Merry Richter
So proud of all the wonderful work you do for this amazing cause.
$28.88
Dora Aldworth-grinnell
$57.38
Ann Harada
$111.25
Kathy And Dan Petersen
In memory of Judy, Kathy's Mom, and Dan's Mom; and in honor of you, M-J, Don, me and all cancer survivors.
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Christine Hornbeek
Thank you for everything that you do! You are making a difference.
$111.25
Anonymous
In remembrance, in hope, with joy Love Valerie
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Anonymous
So excited to see you there!
$111.25
Betsy Shelley
$57.38
Carol Bitov
Best of luck, Scott!
$111.25
Geoff
Wishing you all the best on your ride!
$111.25
Stuart Mcguigan
Amazing endurance and purpose!
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Scott Joy
$100
Katie & Sean Sica
Congratulations on your marriage! We love you both!
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Sally Joy
Here's to another joyful year ahead.
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Sophie Miron
$90
Elizabeth Baer
Mazel Tov!
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Sally Joy
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A Friend
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Deborah Herman
Looking forward to celebrating with you and MJ!
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Don And Eileen Bourassa
$50
Scott Joy
$106.82
Duncan Maio And Kristen Westmoreland
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! Wishing you both many happy years ahead.
