This is a great article about Female veterans. It has nice profiles and stories in it.
Marcia Gay Harden - Tony and Academy award winner and mother of three is serving as Godmother of Carnival Cruise's newest ship. Today she will officially name of the ship and unveil Carnival's Big Book of Dreams. The newest ship was built for St Jude's Children's hospital patients to enjoy.
Mattie Cummings the mother of Marion Barry died last week. Marion Barry is a D.C. council member - very popular political figure there. I had never heard of him before until today, but his mom sure sounds like she was a pistol! She really motivated and inspired her son. He is where he is today because of her.
Elizabeth Mendez Zambrano, the mother of Victor Zambrano (pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays) has been rescued after a 3 day kidnapping ordeal. Mother and son have been reunited!
Meet Chief Warrant Officer 2 Krystal Jancze. Krystal is currently serving in Iraq and got to surprise her middle school aged daughter today when she was piped in to the school assembly via satellite! How cool is that?! **Warning. This link has very annoying ads that have sound effects. I love this story, but couldn't find a better article without all of the annoying ads. Turn your sound down!
Send me any good stories you know of! I love to hear about moms in the news! Send stories to ashleybeam@gmail.com.
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