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| One Nation by Lyric Montgomery Kinard |
In honor of those who have given all for our country
And in honor of those who have served in many other ways...
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| Ida Marie White was on her own and worked in a munitions factory as a teenager. |
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| Joe Field worked for the army, breaking in mules |
My Grandparents, Ida Marie and "Skinny" Joe Field.
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| Their daughter Lynn married David Montgomery who served in Berlin Germany in the army's military intelligence service |
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| Spencer Thomas Kinard (on right) who served in the Navy for his whole career. |
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| Merrill Celeste Anderson |
In honor of my husbands' grandmother who stayed home raising her children while her husband spent almost 18 years at sea.
His Grandfather that served in three wars.
My husbands' father who served in the Navy - and his wife, a Cuban immigrant.
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| Margarita Rodriguez and Charles Spencer Kinard |
I think it's amazing and wonderful that we are a country that welcomes all.
(OK - so I know that's how it is supposed to work - for today I will put on my Pollyanna glasses and pretend we do, and have done so. By and large this is a nation full of wonderful people.)
It is a very special place that we live.