I am the daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of military veterans. My father fought in the Cold War and Vietnam, his father was a colonel in the Air Force in WWII, including “working for Pan Am” building air fields in North Africa. Hitler declared war against the U.S. and voila! all those Pan Am pilots were suddenly officers in the U.S. Air Force. My great-grandfather was an officer in the Spanish American War and a balloon observer and pilot in WWI. My uncle was an officer in the Navy, and my dad’s and his cousins were in the Navy and the Coast Guard. There were so many active duty military on my dad’s side of the family that my mother, a Quaker , had to request no uniforms at their wedding. And even with that, my mother is descended from Quakers who broke away from the Arch Street Meeting in Philadelphia, so that they could fight in the Revolutionary War, contrary to the Quaker tenet of being conscientious objectors.
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