today we're fortunate to have lieutenant colonel promotable nancy b. cantrell joining us to share her insights and knowledge about our trail blazing women who served in the korean war. before i bring her up, i would also like to ask our lady panelists to join us on the stage at this time. if you would join us on the stage, thank you, ladies. lieutenant colonel cantrell's complete bio is in you're vent program. let me tell you just a little bit about her career. she entered active duty in 1978 and served in germany for three years before completing her college degree at the university of south carolina. she worked as a registered nurse in the civilian sector and rose to the rank of staff sergeant in the army reserves before returning to active duty in 1989 in the army nurse core. lieutenant colonel cantrell holds a master's degree in military history from norwich university and is currently completing an mba. she's held numerous medical positions in our great army and is currently serving as the army nurse core historian. she is married to roy cantrell, a retire

we have a print for you. [ applause ] >> and nancy cantrell, please, if you would join me. it's a tough job to run a panel and to keep things on task and she told us always about the history of the war. what i'd encourage you, hopefully in a spurred a little interest that you'll learn a little more about the war. it's important. we want you on each your children about it and their children, so that they understand the importance of it and what was sacrificed over there. so she turned the door open for you. now you have to step through the threshold. nachbts city, thank you on behalf of the committee, we would like to present you with a foil, as well. [ applause. >> [ and now we honor our female korean war veteran panel members with a special presentation. we're also honored to have sergeant myers here and we ask her to come forward at this time. just a little background. megs mye miss myers came with her family today and they traveled nine hours on the road from massachusetts to be with us today. so we wanted to make sure that we presented a certificate to her, as well. tha