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Editor's Note: AFA-CWA member Toni Diamond died Nov. 11, 2004, after a long battle with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Diamond and her husband, Warren Schiffer, also of AFA-CWA, were featured in the CWA News last summer for success in raising millions of dollars for ALS research through a foundation and annual event called Wings Over Wall Street. To learn more or make a contribution, go online to www.wingsoverwallstreet.org.
I am honored to be able to come into your households via the CWA News to share a few words about my wife Toni.
To me, she was the most beautiful, generous, caring, funny, loving, inspirational, and courageous person I'd ever met. The love that we shared and our bond was something that I will treasure always.
Although she had ALS, she was not a disease, diagnosis, or a patient with severe disabilities. I never saw any of that. She was my Toni, still making my heart skip a beat when I was around her.
She was a woman who decided not to become a victim of ALS, or be defined by the disease, but a champion for its eradication. I cannot begin to convey the enormity of fighting to survive this disease and how totally overwhelming it is. Toni, facing all of this, unwaveringly committed herself to sacrificing all that was necessary in order to create an event to fund ALS research and raise awareness. I am proud to say that she used her hope to help bring hope to others and focus on living and not dying with ALS.
I'd also like you to know that Toni died the way she lived; with grace, dignity, courage, and hope. She made the final sacrifice and donated her tissue for ALS research so that her death might spare others from the same end.
Finally, I want to thank the CWA for being so incredibly generous and receptive to Toni's mission of curing ALS. Having just joined our union (AFA) with CWA, I didn't know what to expect. I can tell you that I am so proud to be a union member, especially part of the CWA, whose actions truly made us feel so welcome in the union family. I also want to thank all the members for their generous support of MDA's Wings Over Wall Street and Toni's dream of a world without ALS. We hope that you'll continue to honor Toni's memory and continue to provide hope for all those afflicted with ALS by supporting Wings in 2005.
Sincerely,
Warren Schiffer, Cape Cod, Mass.
Send feedback to: Editor, CWA News, 501 Third St. NW, Washington DC 20001, or e-mail jmiller@cwa-union.org. Put "letter to the editor" in the subject line.
I am honored to be able to come into your households via the CWA News to share a few words about my wife Toni.
To me, she was the most beautiful, generous, caring, funny, loving, inspirational, and courageous person I'd ever met. The love that we shared and our bond was something that I will treasure always.
Although she had ALS, she was not a disease, diagnosis, or a patient with severe disabilities. I never saw any of that. She was my Toni, still making my heart skip a beat when I was around her.
She was a woman who decided not to become a victim of ALS, or be defined by the disease, but a champion for its eradication. I cannot begin to convey the enormity of fighting to survive this disease and how totally overwhelming it is. Toni, facing all of this, unwaveringly committed herself to sacrificing all that was necessary in order to create an event to fund ALS research and raise awareness. I am proud to say that she used her hope to help bring hope to others and focus on living and not dying with ALS.
I'd also like you to know that Toni died the way she lived; with grace, dignity, courage, and hope. She made the final sacrifice and donated her tissue for ALS research so that her death might spare others from the same end.
Finally, I want to thank the CWA for being so incredibly generous and receptive to Toni's mission of curing ALS. Having just joined our union (AFA) with CWA, I didn't know what to expect. I can tell you that I am so proud to be a union member, especially part of the CWA, whose actions truly made us feel so welcome in the union family. I also want to thank all the members for their generous support of MDA's Wings Over Wall Street and Toni's dream of a world without ALS. We hope that you'll continue to honor Toni's memory and continue to provide hope for all those afflicted with ALS by supporting Wings in 2005.
Sincerely,
Warren Schiffer, Cape Cod, Mass.
Send feedback to: Editor, CWA News, 501 Third St. NW, Washington DC 20001, or e-mail jmiller@cwa-union.org. Put "letter to the editor" in the subject line.