Rebecca Connolly:  

I did not get to graduate from Ayer High because my dad retired that summer and we moved to E. Pepperell. I graduated from North Middlesex Regional instead after a very lonely and miserable year. I guess I wasn't ready to leave the army life because I married into it, twice. My husband left the army after the war was over and worked for Foster Grants in Leominister for a few years. My 2nd husband and I moved to Texas with our three children in 1978 to get my knees away from the winter weather. I stayed there until 2006. He died suddenly in 2004 after almost 30 years of marriage. For 8 years I worked in Income Assistance for the state of Texas. I stopped working to raise my twin grandchildren. I was a volunteer at the school all through their elementary years. I have no idea where in Texas my oldest son lives. He has 6 children and a step-child. My daughter is presently battling breast cancer while a guest of the Texas Penal System. She is currently undergoing radiation therapy after a double mastectomy and will follow with reconstruction. I thank those of you who are tax payers in Texas for keeping her alive for me. She has 2 children who live in Oklahoma. My last child, a son, lives here in the same town I do with his wife and 3 daughters. His brother's oldest son lives with him and that boy's twin sister lives with me. I presently live in North Carolina. I live near my father and my youngest son and his family. I am trying to get back into welfare work but goi...Expand for more