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Nathan Norman

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Wall Township Police Officers Meet Their Hero

Police collect Christmas wishes for ill 6-year-old boy

Two Wall Township police officers met their hero Monday. Nathan Charles Norman, a 6-year-old boy with a dire medical condition, greeted Sgt. Joseph Wilbert and Patrolman Doug Borst with open arms Monday when the pair delivered the boxes of well-wishes and gifts at the boy’s Virginia home. The Wall police station over the holidays was the main collection point for gifts for Nathan, who suffers from inoperable cancer. Nathan’s heroes are emergency responders, and he collects insignia and other first responder items from around the country. Wall Police collected six, good-sized boxes as responders and others came to answer a Christmas wish for the boy. Borst and Wilbert, along with Wilbert’s wife and 4-year-old daughter, delivered the boxes …

Monday, December 10, 2012

Fulfilling A Christmas Wish For A Hero In Battle

Wall Police collecting first responder insignia, challenge coins, cards and letters for terminally ill 5-year-old boy

Nathan Charles Norman is a 6-year-old boy who knows quite a lot about heroes and villains. His heroes wear uniforms. Police, firefighters, EMTs and any other emergency responder. They show up when there’s trouble, help and sometimes save people. They have Nathan’s unending admiration. Nathan also knows about villains, because he’s fought one nearly his whole life.  Nathan was diagnosed with brain cancer when he was three. An operation removed a little more than half the tumor, which continues to grow. Doctors later found an inoperable spinal cord tumor. Even chemotherapy, the latest round of which is ongoing, does not stop the progression of Nathan’s disease, only slows it temporarily, according to his mother, Dawn Norman. “We know that …

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