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Soldiers at Arlington Cemetery. The Corps built that, and it has developed
cracks that have to be repaired, so the Corps does have some problems with its
construction.
The Corps didn't make the cracks.
A: No, but the Corps designed and built the project, and it's apparently settled
causing cracks.
What about your other daughter?
A: The other daughter was born three years later. After Mary Jane was born, Kay
didn't go back to work as she had planned. She decided it was more fun to play
with the little baby. But after a year or so she went back to work part-time
establishing a library for the American Automobile Association (AAA). When
our second daughter, Rebecca Christina, was born in
Kay stayed home
full-time because by that time we felt that Mary Jane really needed her to be
home. Mary Jane was in preschool by that time so Kay gave up her library
work and she gave up her writing. Kay also had done some writing. She wrote
a book about her mother's childhood. It was written as a children's book. Her
mother grew up in Alabama in the
and when our babies came along,
Kay took on the job of raising them as her primary responsibility. She loved
being a mother, and I think one reason both daughters turned out so well is that
they have a wonderful mother.
What is your second daughter doing?
A: She takes after her father; she loves the outdoors. She went to Warren Wilson
College near Asheville, North Carolina, and majored in biology. She spent one
semester with the Ocean Research and Education Society, which was two
months on a ship doing research on whales and cetaceans in Baja, California.
She loved that and she really wanted to go on and do a master's degree in that
field at the University of California at Santa Cruz. But when the time came,
she also felt she'd had enough school, just as I had when I graduated from
Johns Hopkins.
She had done a lot of volunteer work at the Smithsonian when she was in high
school, which led her to a job doing research on bats at Barro Colorado Island
in the Gatun Lake in the Panama Canal Zone. Barro Colorado Island is an
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