Our first WW2 Marine Veteran. Meet Etta “Jack” Leverton
August 5, 2023
I received a phone call about a sweet little “100” year old marine veteran. Since she was tucked away in a location and short notice the mission called on me. So I packed up my tools and off I went.
Here was this sweet frail lovely lady named “Etta” who goes by the nickname “Jack”. She was an airplane type mechanic. A marine!
She sat so quietly, she was hearing impaired and nearly blind. I had to raise my voice so she could even partially hear me.
I worked as quick as I could as she transformed into the most beautiful, sweetest little woman I will NEVER forget!
I couldn’t help myself upon completion to get real close and hollar into her ear as I lightly kissed her cheek and I said “Thank you for your service” and lo and behold she quickly turned her head and almost head butted me and yelled “Semper fi”… I still can’t tell the story without goosebumps! She was simply lovely.