Learning the Art of Service from Veterans

If you were born the year Bill Clinton got elected president, it's going to be tough to identify with a World War II veteran who took two bullets in France.

Or with a mother and daughter who came along to honor their recently deceased husband and father. Or with a guy who enlisted in the Air Force in 1952 to avoid the Korean War, only to qualify for flight school and eventually retire as a colonel in the Air Force Reserves, 40 years later—in the same year you were born.

But Kiara Hall, 19, of Lafayette Hill, seemed to handle Thursday's trip to Washington D.C. with 65 veterans and family members from Pennsylvania's 148th District with aplomb (along with her colleagues from the Gerber office in Conshohocken). The trip, featuring a visit to the National Air and Space Museum, was the sixth annual such outing for veterans from the district.

Hall is a communications major at Eastern University in St. Davids. with a minor in political science. We talked with her a bit on the bus ride down on Thursday morning.