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Rick Carone (center), a cameraman for Buck Commander, is battling pancreatic cancer. (Steve Bowman photo)
By Mike Suchan, OutdoorChannel.com
McHENRY, Ill. -- Like George Bailey in “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Rick Carone found out how he has touched his community. They showed as much by coming out to support Carone’s battle with pancreatic cancer Saturday night.
The town of Cary, where Carone grew up excelling at baseball, football, hunting, fishing and everything else, is serving as his guardian angel. Its event was called Cary For Carone, and it seemed the entire town showed up, choking up Carone with its physical and psychological embraces.
“Up and down, crying … emotions … all day today,” he said. “It’s just an overwhelming amount of...