PERSEVERANCE: TRUE HEROES...
Marlee Cannon, founder MS Walk, jumped out of an airplane.: " At the time she had been living with MS for 10 years. As Marlee Cannon donned a banana yellow jumpsuit, her usually rapid repartee is stilted as one reoccurring thought pushes the obvious from her mind. The refrain of the country-western song, "live like you were dying" repeats in her mind bolstering her determination to defy her country-grown, common sense, and fear of heights, and hurl herself out of an airplane."