We had an amazing time as we spent the past week celebrating Veterans Day\u00a0this year traveling from Clarendon Hills to McHenry and lots of places in between bringing Mollie’s story and that of the women who served in the Army in WWII..\u00a0\u00a0 We met WWII Veterans, Korean War Veterans,\u00a0Viet Nam Veterans and the children of these Veterans.\u00a0\u00a0 There was\u00a0an older\u00a0woman who talked about her father who enlisted in WWI and was on a ship when the Armistice was declared–and so his ship turned around and came home.\u00a0\u00a0 There was the woman who talked about her mother being a British war bride.\u00a0\u00a0 Her sister was born in England but she was born in the United States.\u00a0 There was the man who talked about working in Army Intelligence.\u00a0 There was a high school student who was writing a paper about the WACs.\u00a0\u00a0 And then there are always the people who tell me that I inspired them to go home and look at their parents’ stuff–and organize it.\u00a0 And finally my middle school niece, Cassandra,\u00a0who called me because she was writing a paper about a Veteran and wanted to hear about my mother.\u00a0 All in all it was a very memorable week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had an amazing time as we spent the past week celebrating Veterans Day\u00a0this year traveling from Clarendon Hills to …<\/p>\n