The whole auditorium laughed when my teacher said my mother was probably just a secretary who liked old airplanes.I was thirteen years old, standing behind a wooden podium with my hands shaking over a stack of note cards I’d rewritten four times. Behind me, a projector threw up a photograph of my mother in a flight suit, standing beside an F-22 under a gray Nevada sky. She looked younger in that picture. Her hair was tucked under a helmet. Her smile was small and tired, like she’d just landed after something hard. One hand rested against the aircraft the way you’d rest a hand on an old friend’s shoulder.The title of my presentation was simple. My Hero: Captain Rachel Miller.MORE BELOW..
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