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 …
