Dear IAFF Members:

It’s with deep gratitude that I express my awe at your extraordinary dedication to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. For more than 50 years you’ve “filled your boot” to support MDA’s programs that offer help and hope to people with neuromuscular diseases.

Fire fighters have given selflessly of their time and resources to help MDA, and it never ceases to gratify me that so many of you care so much about “my kids.” The IAFF’s tremendous support — especially its heroic, record-breaking efforts during the year-long celebration of our partnership in 2004 — has brought us closer to finding the means by which Muscular Dystrophy and related neuromuscular diseases will be successfully treated and cured. Credit for this magnificent achievement goes to IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger — and to each fire fighter who played a part.

As we start our second half-century together, your friendship means the world to me. You’re always on MDA’s front line, and it’s thanks to fire fighters that victory is within reach.

Love and appreciation …

Jerry Lewis

National Chairman
Muscular Dystrophy Association

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