Personal Chapter: Military Parents


Mom was a Marine drill sergeant of aerial artillery in WWII


And she met and married this super handsome Navy man running the Veterans Administration in Baltimore, MD. As a child I learned how to bounce a dime on my freshly made bed and that you can’t leave any “holidays” if you’re on KP duty from my Dad.

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