SANFORD, Fla. — Ingrid Nathan just recently discovered the legacy that her trailblazing mother left behind, nearly seven decades after her death.
While she knew her mother, Edna Cross Burton, had served in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), it was only this past Christmas she discovered that her mother helped make history by serving as a member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
The battalion, nicknamed “Six Triple Eight,” was the only all-black female unit to be deployed overseas during W.W. II…