She’s Right!
Fox News reported:
Veteran Gladys Hughes, age 99, has an enduring message for all as the nation celebrates Veterans Day this year and continues to remember all of our military veterans throughout the weekend and every day of the year.
It’s about veterans and their importance to this country.
She told Fox News Digital via email, “When someone says to me, ‘Thank you for your service,’ I want to shout out to them, ‘Thank you for caring!’”
“The men and women who have served our country are responsible for the many freedoms that we have,” she said.
“In some way, since I was in the military, I know what these veterans have gone through.”
Gladys Hughes is honored in October 2022 in Nashville by The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project. “When someone says to me, ‘Thank you for your service,’ I want to shout out to them, ‘Thank you for caring!’” Hughes told Fox News Digital. She served in the U.S. Coast Guard women’s reserve, otherwise known as the SPARs. (Robyn McIsaac/The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project)
“No, not the war or the fighting — but the mental, physical and emotional strength they have to have to serve our country.”
Hughes — a longtime teacher, educator, debate coach, playwrite and now writer — served in the Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, also known as the SPARs.
“The men and women who have served our country are responsible for the many freedoms that we have.”
During World War II, the Coast Guard and the other services “found themselves in great need of more men at sea and more troops on foreign soil,” the Coast Guard explains on its website.
“They acknowledged that filling U.S. shore jobs with women would allow more men to serve elsewhere and hasten the war effort.”
The “SPARs were the answer. These women were under military direction, and they were subject to assignment according to the needs of the service.”
The site also explains, “The jobs they were filling could not have been done by civilians working for the Armed Forces because they were not as mobile and did not fall under military law and discipline.”
Recently, on Oct. 26 in Nashville, Hughes was among those honored during an event at the City Winery, the fourth annual Charlie Daniels Patriot Awards.
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