Hats off to our Sisters, serving and protecting each other and their brothers in uniform during and after, as only the few served actually understand the real sacrifices, and historical contributions of, and are willing to give back their own. The many volunteers who serve in the long under funded VA system, the organizations started to help what is and mostly isn't covered by the VA because of the under funding and obstruction to that are successful and not to enrich those operating them, all those who constantly step forward not just to wave the flag! Your sacrifices in service have only grown and will continue to. The very few who serve, women and men, and the families of, willing to sacrifice!
Feb. 15, 2014 - Robin Grantham is among the dozens of volunteers from Pensacola to the Pacific Coast recording first-person accounts of female military veterans’ experiences in uniform and the emotions they evoke.
“So, tell me your story,” said Grantham, a retired Air Force colonel, training her video camera on veteran Navy aviator Jill Nelson, as the two sat in the reflective solitude of the National Naval Aviation Museum library recently.
Now a retired civilian cargo pilot living in Pensacola, Nelson is among nearly 1,300 women who have been interviewed at length for the Oral History Program being prepared by the nonprofit Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation.
“I could only dream I would ever end up as a pilot,” replied Nelson, 55, who yearned for Navy jets from the first time she got a close look at a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk during an air show in her native North Dakota. She remembered that “my mouth fell open” at the aura of the attack aircraft. “I was soon down at the Navy recruiter.” read more>>>
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