Maude Elmore-DeVictor

belated sympathies from an old va co-worker. she did good.

Just read about Maudes passing. My family and I express our deepest condolences. While I was a student at Southern University in Baton Rouge, I became pregnant with a daughter but never told the father. I later married someone else and she thought my husbands was her father intolerant she saw her birth certificate and asked me. I told her that I never told her biological dad about her and helped her write a letter to The Chicago Sun Times Action Time to help find him, and Maude was...

Thank you. You helped so many Vietnam Veterans and their families, including my own.

Maude was an extraordinary soul. Her early recognition of the damage Agent Orange had on Vietnam War veterans--and her tireless fighting for them--set the stage for the tremendous struggle for recognition of a broad range of environmental insults. It was not only for veterans but for anyone exposed to deadly chemicals by an indifferent government and profit focused industries. Thank you, Maude!

I remember when we met -- how you wanted to go to where my ancestors were from and I wanted to go to where yours were from, and how we laughed over that and were friends ever after. Fare well, Buddhist sister. I send you on wings of Daimoku.

Semper Fidelis, R.I.P.