A shared mission to improve the lung health of all Americans brought hundreds of people to the Philadelphia Zoo on Saturday for the annual Lung Force Walk — a fundraiser and awareness event hosted by the American Lung Association with CBS Philadelphia as the presenting sponsor.
All week leading up to the event, we brought you stories from “Lung Force Heroes” like the Temple cancer researcher joining the walk with his mom , a cancer survivor; a lawyer who no longer needs a breathing tube thanks to a double lung transplant ; a dad who beat the odds when he found out he had Stage 4 lung cancer — despite not being a smoker.
Those heroes joined the walk on a wonderful day for it – a little chilly in the shade but pleasant in the sunny spots…