Culture

Walking the wards at night with a lamp, caring for soldiers when everyone had given up. Devotion institutionalized into modern nursing.

A devotion to her work so complete it killed her. Two Nobel Prizes and a life organized entirely around a discipline.

Richard and Mildred Loving moved to Washington to marry, then spent nine years fighting for the right to live together in their home state of Virginia. Their devotion outlasted every law designed to extinguish it.