Capt. Jodi L. Smith, U.S.A.F. Wyoming Air National Guard 2002

The Veterans History Project is about gathering and preserving the stories of those people who have given so much of themselves while in military service to the United States of America. The subject of the interviews could have been at Omaha Beach on D-Day, or transporting underwater demolition teams to mine the harbors in Korea, or being in the brown water Navy in Vietnam. This interview is about a flight nurse who has deployed to the Middle-Eastern Area of Operations six times.

The events on 9/11, caused this young person to pause and think of what had happened and how she could...