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Shetter said the goal of the work is to give people an image “not of the teenage boy who just came out of boot camp, but the man he was on the day they gave him the (Congressional) Medal of Honor.”
"If I liked a foreman and he bragged on me, I would work hard. If I didn’t like a guy, I wouldn’t work at all..."
Great gumption had gotten Pat through the challenges of her youth and great gumption has sustained her through every moment of every day ever since.
National Medal of Honor Day is celebrated annually on March 25, and National Vietnam War Veterans Day is celebrated annually on March 29.
Rather than let her circumstances deter her, Pat used her intelligence, personality, resourcefulness and gumption not only to survive but also to become one of the most successful businesswomen in all of Valencia County today.