roud and excited.My dad has walked every year, and I’ve seen him grow more comfortable in the fact that he’s a cancer survivor.The first year he wouldn’t even wear the survivor t-shirt.The second year he wore the t-shirt, but he wouldn’t hold the survivor lanterns.Then, he held the lantern the next year.This year, seeing him actually join the survivor circle and hold the lantern up and participate, I cried.Feeling like he is proud of what I do has been really motivating.What are the survivor lanterns?At the Light the Night Walk, there are three different colored lanterns: the yellow lanterns are in memory of someone, the red lanterns are for general supporters of the organization and the white lanterns are for the survivors.As the opening ceremonies happen, they ask all the different lanterns to be lit at different times, and then it ends with the survivors.All the supporters hold their lanterns as the survivors light theirs.And it’s a great feeling to know that all of the