1.媒體來源:
CNN
2.記者署名
Alaa Elassar, CNN
3.完整新聞標題:
A Missouri teen dying of cancer wanted a sports car funeral procession.
Thousands helped fulfill his wish
4.完整新聞內文:
罹患罕見疾病的十四歲少年在與病魔搏鬥四年後希望由跑車送葬，消息在臉書上傳播
開來後，全世界超過兩千台跑車齊聚於密蘇里州的小鎮為他送行，有人甚至來自於加
拿大、夏威夷、阿拉斯加。
(CNN)When a teenager dying of cancer said his last wish was a sports car
funeral procession, his community did not disappoint him.
Alec Ingram, a 14-year-old from Washington, Missouri, died on November 7
after battling cancer for over four years. Alec was diagnosed in 2015 with
osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer.
More than 2,100 sports cars and 70 motorcycles gathered in the Six Flags St.
Louis parking lot on Sunday before starting their journey towards Washington
to fulfill the sports car lover's last wish.
CNN has reached out to Alec's family for comment.
"Our sweet boy lived more life in his 14 years then a lot of us could ever
imagine," Alec's mom, Jenny Ingram, posted on their official Facebook page.
"We are beyond blessed to have been chosen to be Alec's parents even for a
short time. It gives me so much peace knowing how loved our sweet boy was and
will always be."
The event, "Sports Cars for Alec," was arranged by Sydney's Soldiers Always,
an organization led by Dana Christian Manley who lost her daughter Sydney to
cancer at age 8.
"All of the local cancer families become family to each other," Manley told
CNN. Sydney was diagnosed with cancer only two months before Alec.
Manley's organization, which provides bucket lists for children suffering
from terminal illnesses, reached out to the Ingram family to ask if there was
something Alec wanted to do.
Unfortunately, by then, Alec was too sick to do anything. Instead, they saved
one special idea for later.
"When Sydney passed, she had a motorcycle escort like this one but with 3,500
motorcycles," Manley told CNN. "When Alec saw Sydney's escort, he said,
'That's really cool, but it would be even better with sports cars,' and
that's why we organized it."
Manley recruited thousands of sports and exotic cars to escort Alec to his
funeral service at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Washington. Many of the
drivers traveled to Missouri from states across the country — including
California, Indiana, Michigan, Florida, and New York — to drive in Alec's
funeral procession.
Thousands of people with signs lined the procession route to support of
Alec's family. So many people and cars showed up that most of the city was
shut down for more than two hours.
"I spoke with Jen (Alec's mother) at the dinner after the funeral, and she
said, 'I couldn't keep it together trying to read those signs, it was so
overwhelmingly good for me to see how much my boy was loved,'" Manley said.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/17/us/missouri-sports-car-funeral-cancer-trnd/index.html
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