Female veterans find healing on Honor Flight

WASHINGTON — For Judi Mouw, being on the Honor Flight trip to the nation's capital in September healed a wound that still felt fresh even after nearly 60 years. In 1968, Mouw joined the Army Reserves while working as a nurse at St. John's Hospital in Fargo. She spent the next year training men who would become Army medics in Vietnam. She loved it. Judi (Lyon) Mouw joined the Army Reserves in 1968. Contributed / Becky Johnson In her second year in the Reserves, she met a soldier and widower named John, who had two young children; the pair began dating, fell in love and married in July 1969. The next month, she headed to Colorado for Reserve training for two weeks, and upon return, her commanding officer asked to talk with her. "The colonel said, 'I have good news and bad news, Judi,'" she remembered. "He said, 'You did well, and we're happy to tell you you're going to be honorably discharged.'" The news was a shock. And it was due to a provision in the 19