Of course it was absolutely, positively the most shocking thing in the entire world, because he had no symptoms to begin with. We were really in disbelief this could be his diagnosis.

It's kind of narrowed the gap between what he can do and what his siblings and peers can do.

We are really in a race against the clock. He is doing really well right now, but we know that the muscles are dying a little bit every day.

War needs to be waged on this disease. Twenty years ago if a child was diagnosed with cancer it was a death sentence; now there's an 80 percent cure rate. I just think if there's enough awareness raised and we move research ahead, something can be done.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole.