Karyn Norton Receives DUVCW Women's Veteran Medal

Mary Morris Husband, Tent #58 President Debbie Schiesser presented Sister Karyn Norton with the DUVCW Women’s Veteran Medal.

Karyn joined the US Navy the summer after graduating from high school, attending Basic Training in Orlando, FL. She was stationed in Lakehurst, NJ for ‘A School’ (Aircrew Survival Equipmentmen) and was trained to maintain all survival equipment needed in the event of a plane crashed or crew bail out including: packing parachutes and maintaining survival equipment.

Part of her training required jumping freefall out of a plane using a parachute that she personally packed. After completing her training, Karyn was stationed at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas teaching new officers how to bailout of planes safely. She was honorably discharged at the rank of Petty Officer 3rd Class (PR3) and is currently a member of The Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation, Inc.

The Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861 – 1865 was incorporated December 12, 1885 and federally chartered December 9, 1985. Local groups are called Tents and are either named for Army Nurses who served in the Civil War or any loyal woman of the Civil War era whose patriotic deeds during the years 1861 – 1865 were recorded. The mission is 'To spread widely the teachings of patriotism, that those who dwell in this broad land of ours will so live that, in peace or in war, there shall be no stain on "The Flag Our Fathers Saved." Our object is to: To perpetuate the memory, deeds and loyalty of those ancestors who sacrificed so much in the struggle to preserve the Union and establish freedom for everyone.'