While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

org for more information). Also in 2005 Madison Cross a good friend of Stepanek wrote and recorded a song dedicated to him entitled "He Was Just Like Me". T.

He became a peace advocate and motivational speaker and lobbied on Capitol Hill on behalf of peace people with disabilities and children with life-threatening conditions. Stepanek suffered from a rare form of muscular dystrophy dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy that resulted in his death a month before his 14th birthday. He has also won numerous awards.