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Meet Peter Frates the inspiration behind the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The former baseball player and ALS sufferer might have lost his voice through the disease, but his message is being received loud and clear thanks to his ice bucket challenge going viral. His mother Nancy tells us about her son, his battle against ALS and how he inspired the first ALS ice bucket challenge.

(Photo: Julie Frates, wife of Peter Frates, dumps a bucket of ice water on her husband, former Boston College baseball captain who has ALS and is behind the ice bucket challenge that has gone viral. CREDIT: Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)