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A Salute to Veterans 2016: Army career was ‘only thing’ Honig wanted to do
Vera Honig traveled around the world during her 20-year career in the Army.
Tracee Beebe
“Fun” isn’t usually the way most would describe their time in the U.S. Army, but for Vera Honig of Llano, that is exactly how she remembers her 20 years of service. She had just graduated from basic training (“Boot Camp”) when the Korean War broke out, but she wasn’t afraid of the war. “My daddy was in the first World War, my brother was in the second,” she said,”They both survived, so I figured I would, too.” Honig decided to join the Army the moment she first saw a woman i ...
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