PASADENA—It was just after 2 o’clock on Tuesday, when the announcement blared from the loudspeakers at the Rosemont Pavilion in Pasadena:
“The Donate Life float is finished!”
Amid the cheers and hugs among the volunteers who had helped to build and painstakingly decorate the float, Bruce Endo stared calmly at the floor for a moment, then gave a soft sigh as he looked skyward.
Donate Life’s float entry in the 125th Rose Parade on New Year’s Day was titled “Light Up the World,” and featured memorial floragraphs – floral portraits – of 81 people whose donation of organs or tissues have helped save the lives of others.
“A donor’s legacy is that their presence in the world never ends,” Endo, 62, said later. “Organ, tissue, and eye donation isn’t about death, but about giving and life.”
In April 1981, Endo and his wife, Pamela, received an urgent call from a hospital near their San Fernando Valley home, telling them their three-month-old son had been rushed there.
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