Perry Beabout

Aug 10, 2024

Since my diagnosis, we’ve tried to make the most of our time and we have taken advantage of living under the same roof. This is Perry’s story told in his own words while he was living with ALS. When I was 22 years old, I joined the Air Force. This changed my...

Fred Drinkwater

Aug 10, 2024

As a child of ALS, I learned a whole new definition of love. As a child, I had a picture in my mind of what true love should look like. Inspired by the many fairytales I would read over and over, I thought love was easy and that finding your true love would be like...

Evelyn Proctor

Aug 10, 2024

Get me churros and a chocolate shake 25 Year Air Force veteran Evelyn Proctor suffered from ALS. This is a brief look into our story. It’s March 2009, upon returning from one of the many deployments she was tasked with, there was something wrong. Evelyn was...

David Brattain

Aug 10, 2024

ALS always chooses the good ones. It takes them way too soon. David Brattain was a veteran, an adventurer, a family man, and an ALS hero. During his life he made a living playing Blackjack in Las Vegas, worked on a Shrimp boat in Florida, hiked the wonderland trail...

Danette Mendenhall

Aug 10, 2024

I was not prepared to find out that Dani had ALS, the day after our kids graduated from high school.  Dani and her husband were preparing for their next chapter in life when ALS hit. Their son was a senior in high school, their daughter was playing college soccer,...