Forced out of the military for being gay, former Airman now serves his fellow veterans as a VA nurse
Moving to Los Angeles, Stiles worked in computer technology jobs of increasing skill and responsibility. Then, his father became very ill with lung cancer. Stiles was very moved about the way his mother, who was a nurse, cared for his father until he died, although the two had long been divorced and she was remarried. “The comfort, strength, courage and support my mother offered was extraordinary,” he says. A few years after his father’s death, Stiles decided to become a nurse.
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