Letters to the editor

Join the fight against breast cancer

Dear editor:

I want to invite my fellow Missourians to join with me in the fight against breast cancer. Last year I ran in the 2005 Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in St. Louis. It was a beautiful day and I enjoyed the exercise and felt good about doing just a little bit to help a worthy cause.

What struck me though, was how thousands of other people, most of whom are fighting or had been affected in some way by breast cancer, were taking the time to band together to fight this awful disease.

Moms and dads, sons and daughters, cousins, in-laws, neighbors and friends of breast cancer patients, all banded together to show we care.

I urge you to join me and thousands of others at this years race for the cure in St. Louis on June 10, to show our support for breast cancer patients and their families. Kansas City will also host a race for the cure on Sunday, Aug. 13, and perhaps many who can't join us in St. Louis can run or walk in that race as well.

You can get more information on this years races at www.komen.org. I would be pleased to run or walk beside you. Together we will let breast cancer patients everywhere know, in our own small way, that we care.

Peter Kinder

Missouri Lieutenant Governor