BATON ROUGE — Louise “Gidget” McIntyre has dedicated her life to serving her community and her country.
McIntyre, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1968, recently traveled to Washington, D.C. with Honor Flight Louisiana. She visited the Vietnam Memorial Wall to find the name of John F. Pender, a U.S. Army soldier killed in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam in 1967.
“We were married five months. We were young,” McIntyre said. “Then he got his orders for I don’t know how long. They let him come back to their duty station for another week, and that was the last time I saw him.”…