JD received a key to the City of Worcester, MA in October 2017, along with 10 little heroes changing the city for the better. Cancer knocked me down, then I got up and was stronger than I was before.

JD went to Iraq for 10 months in 2003, returned home, worked with his father, then went back to Iraq for another deployment. When he returned home again, he worked with his father. Daige joined the Worcester Police Department in 2006. Several years later, in 2013, he first noticed something something was wrong.

Worcester officer Jonathan 'JD' Daige is honored along with many other cancer survivors this weekend at the Sox game.

WORCESTER (CBS) – Police officer JD Daige spends his nights patrolling Worcester in his police cruiser and his days training for his very first Pan-Mass Challenge.