WWII Vet Gets Some Justice

Since this year is the 75^th anniversary of the start of the WWII Navy program WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), I thought you might enjoy a little music today. It goes with this story, about a WWII WAVE.

WAVES of the Navy is the countermelody to ‘Anchors Aweigh’. When the two are sung and played together, it’s good music.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNvBqsNSx_Q

Now, you may remember a story from December 2016, when a 94 year old WWII WAVES veteran was attacked on her own property on Pearl Harbor Day and beaten up, and her purse was stolen by a man driving a stolen car.  That’s her in the photo at the top of this article.  http://abc7chicago.com/news/94-year-old-wwii-veteran-beaten-during-sw-side-robbery/1645837/

The story doesn’t stop there. The thief and granny basher was driving a stolen vehicle. He bailed out of the stolen car in sight of a surveillance camera mounted outside a pizza parlor just down the street from Mrs. Regnier’s house. He had left her with some broken ribs, a bump on her head, a possible concussion, and a bunch of bruises, including black eyes. She was transferred from a civilian hospital to Hines VA for her care.  She says she still has a little trouble breathing.

Mrs. Regnier’s son works at the pizza parlor. Her daughter had arrived to take her mother to the dentist just as the thief was running away with her mom’s purse. The pizza parlor owner gave the video to the cops very quickly. The thief, one Olajuwon Claiborne was arrested a few days later, after he was turned in by a former jailhouse buddy. I guess being a granny basher isn’t as cool as these dopes think it is.

Well, since Mr. Claiborne was ID’d and was wanted anyway, he was picked up by Chicago’s finest, the pohlease people, and sat in jail awaiting trial. And Mrs. Regnier was there to see him. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail on September 21, 2017. When his sentence was handed down, he tearfully apologized to Mrs. Regnier, who is now 95.

http://abc7chicago.com/man-gets-20-years-in-attack-on-94-year-old-world-war-ii-veteran/2439686/

Her response was to ask “Why would he want to spend his life that way?”

After all of this, the Bridgeview Lions Club threw a party in Mrs. Regnier’s honor, which is too cool. The guys got all the parades at the end of WWII. The gals mostly went home and did other things, although some of them stayed in the services.

Mrs. Regnier’s job as a WAVE was basically as either a PN or a YN, answering phones and processing soldiers where she was stationed in Brooklyn. Since the WAVES boot camp was at Hunter College in Brooklyn, she was probably stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.  http://abc7chicago.com/news/94-year-old-wwii-veteran-honored-after-attack-outside-her-chicago-home/1715721/

She is one tough gal. I hope to be like her if I ever grow up.

You go, girl! You left behind some big shoes for the rest of us girls to fill.

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