Elizabeth Maher:  

Life After OLVA, I moved to Washington DC to attend Trinity College - graduated in 1976 with a degree in French. From 1976 until 1980, I worked for General Motors Acceptance Corporation in Washington DC (did not speak a word of French in the process - quelle domage)! In February 1980, I was accepted into a Financial Management training program with the Department of the Navy - this has been my career ever since. I have held numerous positions as a budget analyst with a variety of different activities, but always with the Department of the Navy. Of course, this found me in the Pentagon on 9/11 - in the section that was hit, 2 floors above the impact area. Obviously it was not yet my time to go. On the personal front, my parents are both deceased - Mom passed away in 1984 after a long battle with chronic lung disease. My father passed away in 1989 - congestive heart failure. He had relocated to Northern Virginia to live with me after my Mom's death. Though we had our moments, overall it was a good move. My only sibling, my brother Jim, passed away in 1994 - he had the AIDS virus. He lived with me in the last 2 years of his life - much of that time he was well enough to enjoy life in the DC area. Having spent much of my adult life caring for family members, it was certainly a joy for me to meet my current partner (also named Liz) in 1999. She has 2...Expand for more