first-hand accounts

John Washington's recounting of his difficult years as a Virginia slave was made only seven years after his emancipation.

"My work with the LAF shows me daily that sharing our stories and learning from one another’s experiences helps us cancer survivors continue to survive. Some people think the cancer experience is only about the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, as if after the disease goes into remission, it no longer exists. But survivorship goes beyond remission. Survivorship is an evolution."
From the Introduction by Lance Armstrong

A wonderful account based on the actual words and writings of the men who lived through those famed battles.