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Great-grandmother eager to serve in Iraq.(The Goodness Of America)(Brief Article)
Seventy-two-year-old Lena Haddix, a great-grandmother, has worked for the post exchange (PX) at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for 27 years. But on November 28, she departed Oklahoma for a week of training and medical checkups at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. The reason? To prepare for a minimum of six months' service in Iraq in the Army and Air Force Exchange Service?
ABC News reported that Mrs. Haddix would receive training in how to wear a gas mask and shoot a 9mm pistol. The adventure may seem remarkable, but so is Mrs. Haddix. She was a military wife from 1950 until 1979, and went to work at Fort Sill in 1977. But Mrs. Haddix, who has five children, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, wanted to do more. In an ...
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