"You have cancer": Sally Yates opens up about her diagnosis and what she wants other women to know
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Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates is opening up about her experience battling breast cancer in an essay for CBSNews.com ahead of her interview with Norah O'Donnell on tonight's "CBS Evening News." Read her essay below.
It's never a good sign when you call a physician's office for test results, and you're transferred directly to the doctor.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.