We all know someone, very close to us; a friend, a loved one.

It might have even been you.

Just a few months ago, some of our community came together to support the annual Warren County Relay for Life, an event that aims to raise money to support cancer research and work toward the eventual defeat of cancer in all its forms.

While that was May, it seems that each month is one tagged with a special recognition of a form of cancer.

According to the American Cancer Society, January is National Cervical Health Awareness Month, February is National Cancer Prevention Month, March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, April is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month and so on.

The entire calendar is marked with such events, such observances. Such is the case with October and a cancer that brings with it so many connections and emotions.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and for the past two years, The Vicksburg Post has published a Pink edition to help mark the month and shed light and share information about a disease that affects so many mothers, daughters, sisters and dear friends.

Over the past two years, we have shared touching stories of perseverance and loss, of sadness and elation. This year will be no different.

On Sunday, Oct. 9, The Post will again publish our Pink edition, a newspaper printed entirely on pink paper, to help bring attention to this disease, the lives it has touch and the programs available to those battling the disease.

But while those stories will be emotional and informational, they are not the ones that may very well have the biggest impact.

That would be your story.

We again are inviting our readers to submit their breast cancer stories, either sharing stories of victory over the disease or telling of loved ones who lost the battle.

The stories, no longer than 400 words, should be emailed to our editor, Jan Griffey, at jan.griffey@vicksburgpost.com along with a photograph of those featured in the story.

Our goal is to publish as many stories as we receive, making as much room in that day’s edition as possible, to share with our readers, our community these stories.

As a community, we celebrate together during good times and come together to comfort one another in bad times. We come together to build one another up and support those who are hurting.

Doing so is simply what we as a community do, have done and will always do.

This edition of The Post is one of the ones I look forward to each year, not because of the subject of cancer, but of the stories that are told.

It is my hope — the hope of everyone here at The Post — that you too will enjoy our annual Pink edition on Sunday, Oct. 9.