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Before you start handing out medals, let us look at the rest of the story. Even though as a disabled Vet I wouldn't stop her from raising morale, maybe we should take a good hard look at the woman. When her husband, Ray, died two years ago, she was made executer of the estate. Betty arranged the schedule to suit her meeting the planes. Never mind that family came from all over the country. Everyone had to abide by her timetable. She stretched it over several days, delaying services with only an hours warning. Then while everyone was in the process of mourning, she would quickly end it, because she had to go meet a plane. I think that she shone her true colors, as when everyone was leaving the coffin at the grave site, she stopped everyone and had them sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to her. She told everyone at the reading of the will, that we would have to wait because Ray had left thirty thousand dollars in debt that had to be paid before we could get what he had wanted us to have. That sounded reasonable. Two years later and the bills still haven’t been paid. She lied to us, saying everything had ben taken care of, and to come get what little was left. After driving over twenty-one hundred miles, she told me that the lawyer had told her to sell everything at auction, and everything that he had left to me in the will was gone to pay the thirty thousand dollar bill. What has she been doing for the last two years, in exclusion of doing her duty as the Matriarch of the Laird clan? She has been meeting planes. She has no sense of what Honor is. She has no comprehension of what Family is. She is just another insecure person that constantly needs to be in the limelight, to have her Ego stroked. To be the official ‘Hug Lady’ of Fort Hood and never miss a plane. But it is good for the solders moral. Yes, let the Have Pencil, Will Travel business go under because she doesn’t have time to work. Make her family wait for years, waiting for closure of the death of their father. Duty, Honor, Country. These words have no meaning for her. I can’t complain, after all, I became disabled in the military so pinheads like this could screw it up for the rest of us.