By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

As teenagers, with their whole lives of adventure ahead of them, best friends Alan Brown and Danny Heumann walked together to get their high school diplomas, but now, 27 years later, they wheel their chairs side-by-side after both being paralyzed in devastating accidents two years apart, and Breaking Celebrity News has exclusive details.

To commemorate 25 years since he broke his neck in a freak incident while diving into the ocean on a Club Med vacation in January of 1988, 45-year-old Brown, director of public impact for the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation has pledged to raise $250,000 ($10,000 for every year he has been wheel-chair bound) with his Power Of We campaign to help others suffering from spinal cord injuries.

Just two years before Alan's fateful plunge, Danny had been involved in a deadly car accident while working as a counselor in summer camp in the Adirondacks in New York state that killed the driver and left him with a broken back.

"Then I had to outdo him! I always have to better my friends - he breaks his back so