sacrifice themselves on the basic principle that we should live free. while the cause is the same everyone has a different reason for serving. maybe they are following in their father s footsteps or felt a calling after the terrorists tore down the twin towers. for me it was a patriotic parade or a series of them in a small town. motherly day and fourth of july parades in a tiny town in southern minnesota where my parents grew up. the whole town lined up on the tree sign side of the main street waiting for the veterans to walk by and when they came older vets and younger vets, crowd clapped and saluted. the reverence that town had for the veterans made me say, wow, those men really did something special. something bigger than this town. something bigger than themselves. these men were willing to put on a uniform and face danger for me, a kid they never met. it was just a handful of veterans, from one town. but every town in america gave men like that. out of sheer patriotism
Harbor teaching sailors reading and writing and working at the hospital there and decades later she still helps our soldiers doing needle work for patients at v. a apartment hospitals. we re honored now to be joined by pat rudd. hi, pat. thank you so much for being with us today. it s great to talk to you. thank you. so, pat, i want to put that picture back up because it s just darling, of you, as a teenager, wanting to get involved in what was going on in world war ii. tell me a little bit about how you pursued this driver of yours to be part of the effort to win world war ii. well, when i was in boot camp at hunter college, i left there and was signed to my service in d.c., and while i was there i