Its not too often that when a memorial is built in someones honor that those people get to see the memorial in person. By the end of the day, 92 veterans, some who served in World War II and the Korean War, got to see the memorials that were built in their honor. With three female veterans on the trip, at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, those women began having flashbacks of when they served. Arlene Geso, of Bridgeport, met a current female service member Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexandra Kemp. Within minutes of meeting each other, the two discovered they had a lot in common. They found that both trained at the same facility and held the same position in the Navy. When Geso served, she was a corpsman and enlisted in Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Services (WAVES) in 1952. Kemps current position is a corpsman at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and she has served for the past 10 years. Kemp was among the sailors who volunteered to escort the veterans throughout the day.
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 12:28:46 +0000
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