Month: December 2017 Articles

Edania Maldonado

At eighteen, Edania Maldonado is young, compassionate and full of life. A freshman at LaSalle University, she dreams...

Denise Coleman’s back pain began when she was just twelve. At first, it was mainly just a nuisance. By the time she...

Nicole Spink has been living with a chronic neurological syndrome, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, since she was ten....

Michele Rice had always wanted to be a teacher. She graduated with a BA in liberal studies from California State...

Ellen Smith is living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a progressive degenerative connective tissue disorder...

Sidelined by a mysterious event, she still gives it her all In her twenties, April Nesmith was a pre-med biology, Army...

“I know that what I am enduring makes me brave” For the past 12 years, Petty Officer Second Class (E-5) Kathryn E....

Advocating for medical cannabis for veterans in need From a young age, the male influences in Sergeant Sean Major’s...

Pamela Smejkal joined the United States Army at the age of 22 in 1996, honoring her desire to travel and join...

Embracing complementary medicine for pain relief “I always wanted to be someone who served in defense of this...

Heriberto Vidro is a father, husband and United States hero. Enlisting in the Army Reserves in 1980, Vidro, as his...

Herb Worthington was a newlywed and recent graduate of the prestigious New York Phoenix School of Design (later known...