Call to Action: VAMCS Employee Inspired to Serve
By Staff Writers
Captain Cecilia “Terry” Perez, Baltimore VA Medical Center emergency and operating room nurse, answered an internal call to duty after the attacks of September 11. She told her story exclusively to the Executive Post, and Defend America – an electronic newsletter published by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Her story is extraordinary because she decided to join the Army at age 44. “I felt very proud to be working with our veterans at the time of the events of September 11,” commented Terry. “Their stories, courage and pride in serving their country in their generation’s time of crisis inspired me to investigate the possibility of joining the reserves.”
Initially, Captain Perez ANC served with the 67th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in Tikrit, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. She makes us proud of her courage in the field and awed by her talents as the ultimate strategist.
Terry is now stationed at Ft. Lewis in Washington State, having just returned from Baghdad and Baqouba, Iraq. She is with the 3-2 SBCT (Third Brigade, Second Infantry Division, Stryker Brigade Combat Team).
Today, at age 50, she hopes to be discharged by the summer of 2008; a full six years after her heroic journey began. She will then resume blogging, writing, editing and her position as print-guide BOD member.
And no doubt, a book of her experiences is in the works.
http://www.defendamerica.mil/CallAction/CalltoAction.html
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