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WEEKLY MESSAGE FROM ATO COO TERI L. BRISTOL
A Memphis Belle M emory for Veterans
Hi everyone. Next Wednesday is Veterans Day. I want to take this moment to
thank our military veterans at the FAA and throughout the nation for their service to our
country.
Two weeks ago we held a Veteran recognition event . Administrator Huerta noted
several things the agency is doing to support Veteran hiring and job training. He also
talked about several employees who are doing great things to thank, honor or assist
veterans and their families.
I'd like to share a story about one of our employees too. Tom King works air
traffic at Pittsburgh Tower. He's good friends with the son of a woman named Dora Mae.
During World War II, Dora Mae was engaged to her high school sweetheart, a young
man named Ziggy. He was a 19 - year old Army air corpsman serving in the European
theatre, as a waist gunner on B - 17 bomber aircraft. In 1943, Ziggy was part of a crew
conducting a bombing run over Hamburg, Germany, a mission that was scheduled to b e
his last one before coming home. But they took anti - aircraft fire from the ground, and the
