Ryan White

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.