Forget-me-not: Mothers and Sons

An installation by Marie Watt commemorating Northwest servicemen and -women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Helen Caruthers
1911–2000
Submitted by Stuart Wylen

My grandmom was a world traveler.She was progressive on foreign policy and the environment before it became fashionable. When I was a 16-year-old high school dropout, she paid for my six-month journey through Europe and the Middle East because she felt strongly that Americans needed to be more aware of the rest of the world.