Local News Anchor Announces ALS Diagnosis and Retires in Touching Broadcast

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TIME: Local News Anchor Announces ALS Diagnosis and Retires in Touching Broadcast

When longtime North Carolina news anchor Larry Stogner participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge last summer, he didn’t yet know that he was one of the 30,000 Americans who suffer from the neurological disease.

“I am sure that in recent months, you’ve noticed a change in my voice, my speech slower,” the anchor at ABC affiliate WTVD said in a touching broadcast last Friday. “Many of you were kind enough to email me ideas about what it might be, or just to show concern, and I truly appreciate that. As it turns out, I have ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease.”
 
Watched it. Thanks.
 
wow, bucketload of tears watching that, thanks for sharing
 
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