Conversation with Jean Wu, United States Navy Veteran

I had a conversation with Ms. Wu who served from 1994 to 2006 in the United States Navy. We discussed her initial experiences and what inspired her to join the Navy after high school. We discussed career opportunities and the...

Bob Hope Village Woman Vet Joanne Blackwell
February 25, 2022 App Interview

Interview with Joanne Blackwell when she was in the Air Force from 1951 to 1953. Joanne was a teletype operator. She received her training at F. E. Warren, Wyoming. Then was assigned to Maxwell AFB, AL and transferred to Hickam...

Dancing in the Sky: Remembering Dolores Meurer Reed, WASP

Dolores Meurer Reed broke all the “rules” about what a woman could do and be when she joined the Women’s Air Service Pilots (WASPs) in 1943. Just one year before her death, Dolores and her sister WASPs, received the Congressional...

Interview over my moms work

My mom talks about what she does currently for work as well as what she did when she was younger. She also talks about stories from her work.

A CIA agent falls in love in Cold War Beirut

My grandmother described leaving rural New York for her education and short career in the U.S. Secret Service in Beirut, Lebanon, in the early days of the Cold War, while her sister took a very different path (a convent). There...

Taqiyya Deen Washington and Karen Kay Reynolds: Women Veterans

Taqiyya Deen Washington and Karen Kay Reynolds are leaders in Clarksville Indivisible. They discuss their experiences as women in the military.

Salem High School NJROTC Vets to Cadets – Specialist Rheinsmith

Specialist Rheinsmith served as a Specialist in the U.S. Army Reserves. She shares her story of empowerment as a female in the military.

Military Interview (Mrs. Meaghan Bilello)

Mrs. Meaghan served in the coast guard for four years where she learned a lot about the person she is. I (Ben Durham) asked her a series of questions about her time in the military and her thoughts on war...

Interview with a Woman in the Air Force in the 50s-60s

This is an interview with my grandmother about her tour in the Air Force in the 50s-60s

Dilemmas in character,leadership,and justice

We talked about her military life and how she made her transition from civilian to solider

Inside View of Military Life

In our interview we discussed an inside view of military life from a woman’s perspective. We also discussed the transitions to and from military life along with how her experiences shaped her into the woman she is today.

Legacy of May Brill, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, veteran, woman.

May Brill, 1st generation American, fought for the United States in WWII, leaving a legacy of Love and remembrance. At 93 years old, she is New Jersey’s Chairman of Women in the Military, and championing the rights of all women.

Evolution of Women’s rights

I interviewed my grandmother Candace Wood on her experiences with women in society

Military Mom

This interview goes through the life of my mom as she decided to join the military. There were a lot of hard times, for she was only the fourth class of women to get accepted into West Point, but she...

Growing up in the military

My grandmother, Joan, talks about her life growing up with military parents. Also her 3 children and the hard times during her divorce and how she is happier with her second husband.

Wagdy Zaki and His Unique Journey

In this interview conducted in November 26, 2017 in Bayonne, New Jersey, I Sarah Zaki (17) interview my brother about his childhood in Egypt, the birthplace for both of us! Wagdy shares his perspective on women in Egypt and the...