I want to share the exploits of Great-Aunt Gertie because of the importance her tales have become for many generations of people in our family.
Gertie was married before World War 2 to a man who turned out to be “a bad man”. She joined the women’s coast guard (SPARS) in order to get away from him and rose in rank to become an officer. Shortly after the war, she divorced her husband — virtually unheard of at the time.
In the 1950’s she rode a Harley and ran with a “rough crowd”.
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