Lena mae riggi biography sample
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Rooted in Service
2 August Women Recruit Training Battalion Platoon 14B
By Sharon Tutt
My family background has military roots that span as far back as World War I. My maternal grandfather, L. W. Knox, served in the Army in France for three years. Three of his sons joined the military during World War II; Uncle Curtis served in the Army and was stationed in the Pacific, Uncle John also served in the Army in World War II and was stateside. Uncle Thomas served in the U.S. Navy and his unit had assignments in Normandy, France.
My paternal roots which are from the Lincolnton, Augusta, Georgia area run deep in the military. Uncle David Tutt, Jr. retired from the U.S. Army as a Command Sergeant Major. Uncle Bobby Tutt retired from the U.S. Army as a Sergeant First Class, and Aunt Lillie retired from the U.S. Army from the Nurses Corps in Columbus, Georgia.
I was in the Army ROTC in high school and participated on the Palmetto High Schools Army ROTC Drill Team. I chose to go into
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I had ventured west of Manhattan’s 10th Avenue in order to attend the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress, a kind of annual lalapalooza of our coreligionists. Over three days, literally thousands of laypeople, media folks, religious, priests and prelates come tillsammans to pray, attend talks, visit booths and enjoy the spectacle—if you’ll excuse the pun—of the masses. As the deadline for this then-unfinished column drew dangerously nigh, I was darting down the Pacific Coast Highway en rutt to Solana Beach, one of a dozen ever-sunny hamlets just north of San Diego. I was on my way to visit a husband and wife who’ve been reading America for—get this—more than 60 years.
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