WASHINGTON — A dragon winds around a cherry tree in the tattoo across MJ Hegar’s arm and back, over the shrapnel wounds she had, at one point, not wanted to see with her young children around. But nine years after being shot down in Afghanistan, then winning a lawsuit against the federal government, writing a book and now running for a Texas congressional seat, Hegar isn’t hiding much anymore. “I carry my service with me wherever I go,” Hegar said in a telephone interview near her home in Round Rock, outside Austin.
Next Mission For Women With Military Service: Run For Office
LAURIE KELLMAN and BILL BARROW, LAURIE KELLMAN and BILL BARROW, Associated Press, The Columbian
Fri, 08/17/2018 - 3:34pm
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