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A quick story.
Margaret Tiernan was born August 17, 1924 to Francis Coyne and Irish-born Sadie Coyne-Tiernan. In 1943, she enlisted in the WAC & was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe for the rest of the war. She married Bill Klessens in 1951. A WWII Navy vet, he also went to Korea.
Margaret Tiernan was born August 17, 1924 to Francis Coyne and Irish-born Sadie Coyne-Tiernan. In 1943, she enlisted in the WAC & was stationed at Fort Oglethorpe for the rest of the war. She married Bill Klessens in 1951. A WWII Navy vet, he also went to Korea.
In 1962, Bill—then working at the naval shipyard—was aboard a landing craft that sank in Boston Harbor; he and six others were rescued by the Coast Guard.
Bill & Margaret had four kids. One of them, Neil, earned a "triple crown" of Somerville basketball awards in 1967 at the age of 13. Their older son Bill Jr. that same year earned "Scout of the Year" honors from Troop 30. Both feats were catalogued by the Boston Globe.
In 1977, Margaret came across what she thought was an armed robbery. It was just a prank, but a seemingly very complicated one?
Bill died in 1993. In 2015, at the age of 90, her work in a VA art therapy program was so good the facility adopted it for use in its greeting cards. She used the occasion to reflect on World War I.
...which brings us to today, when Margaret Klessens received the first COVID-19 vaccine dose administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. https://twitter.com/SecWilkie/status/1338550010678554625
