jennifer: 54-year-old irish sherman, mother of two launched a new app.o help people with special diets. >> i have to continue. i really do. jennifer: now she is the one that needs help to keep her body steady. >> i walk with a cane. jennifer: after a haunting december night last year. >> i couldn't sleep for a long time. jennifer: it was dark out when she got in the car to pick up her 24-year-old son jonathan from the rockville metro. >> i was hit by something. bizarre. no car. nothing there. i took a deep breath and i started to drive again. jennifer: one more block before her mind and body caught up to what had really happened. >> i looked over and i saw a hole. oh, my gosh, i think it's a gunshot. jennifer: she put her right foot on the brake. >> the high pressure pain. i t there was a lot of blood. jennifer: she learned the bullet lodged in her thigh was half an inch away from her femoral artery. half an inch away from almost killing her. >> one of the reasons i kept driving i was afraid. what if it is a real shooter and he is shooting again? jennife

sherman later wrote: i have the irish brigade, thank god they can fight. but he couldn't stand the irish at all. one of the things was culture. you have to understand that between battles the irish would stage these massive festivals. while they're at war, they would have steeplechase races, they would have theater, they would have -- they would play their pipes and their fiddles til three in the morning. and, of course, they had a little liquor involved. [laughter] and a massive st. patrick's day events that were the toast of the union army. all the other union generals would come to. so marr tried to find some joy -- oh, and they would play hurling too. tried to find some joy in the margins of the slaughter, and all the cultural things which the irish are known for they all practiced in between these battles, and that rubbed the career officers the wrong way as well. some of them not. i mean, burnside praised them, and he loved going to these festivities. they would actually stage plays while waiting to charge richmond in the peninsula campaign. they wer