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.com/emailthe overlooked Kate Pickert’s Oct. 14
feature on the lack of research into metastatic
breast cancer hit home with survivors. “Us
‘metsters’ (metastatic people) are so often
overlooked, and yet
we are the ones so ur-
gently needing help,”
said Johanna Rauhala
of Richmond, Calif.
Celeste Jones Fraser,
a metastatic- breast-
cancer patient in
Estes Park, Colo., said
that she’s been “liv-
ing a full life” since her
first cancer diagnosis
17 years ago and that
Stage IV “is not a death
sentence.” William
Sykes, a survivor in
Xenia, Ohio, said he could relate too, as men
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in America project, directed by French artist JR,
won an Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in
Innovation from the Radio Television Digital News
Association. The multimedia project—which was
featured on the cover of the Nov. 5, 2018, issue—
was also nominated for a News and Documentary
Emmy Award last summer. See more at time
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SAID ABOUT ...
america’s forever war In the Oct. 21/
Oct. 28 cover package about America’s mili-
tary, Elliot Ackerman made the case for a
draft—and many of his fellow veterans agreed.
Iraq War vet Mike Busovicki of Canonsburg,
Pa., said he’d never
supported the idea
but now thinks “it’s
the only way for
Americans to take
their military —and
our lives— seriously.”
Navy vet Bruce Jayne
of Saluda, N.C., said
those who serve
would gain an “ap-
preciation” for people
from all walks of life,
and vets and civilians alike said the wealthy
would particularly benefit from service that
would give them experience of challenges
faced by those less fortunate, as Del Jordan of
Monroeville, N.J., put it. But Tim Ackert of Or-
lando felt differently. “Keep it a volunteer mil-
itary,” he wrote, “but take care of the troops
and their families better.”‘We elders
make a
decision to
go to war
and put our
children in
harm’s way.’
NALIN M. SHAH,
Greenwood, Ind.‘Here I am,
seven years
later. Other
than the
time lost to
rehab from
surgeries,
I’ve been
having a lot
of fun.’
SUSAN CROSSER,
Wilson, Wyo.AWARD-WINNING WORK
TIME’s journalism took home several Front Page
Awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York
on Oct. 14. Stephanie Zacharek won in the Essay
category; Krisanne Johnson and Collier Schorr in
the Feature Photography category; and Natalie
Keyssar in the Photography Essay category, for
images accompanying a Feb. 24 piece on violence
at the Venezuela-Colombia border (above).Conversation
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