Sole female gold-shirt veteran reflects on service during Honor Flight Tallahassee

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Honor Flight Tallahassee took 72 veterans to Washington D.C. this year, and the only woman sporting the gold shirt was Juanita Raymond.

“I did not realize I was going to be the only female veteran here,” Raymond said.

Raymond joined the Army in 1974, not out of a lifelong dream, but out of love. When her husband Leland was drafted and heading overseas, she had a simple answer…

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