Couple grateful for Barbara Bush’s help
Our daughter, Janet Hicks Joujan Milanesi, broke her back in 1988 when she and her husband, both missionary teachers in Africa, were hit by a dump truck as they were traveling to a boarding school to get their daughter.
Her husband died in the crash, and she needed better treatment for her injuries. The mission board office needed permission for an ambulance to meet the Zambian airplane at Kennedy Airport to get her to an Olan Mills plane that was sent to pick her up and bring her to Chattanooga.
I called the office of the president. I had to call back, and the woman who answered indentified herself as Barbara Bush. She told me she would see what she could do. Within 10 minutes I received a call from the head of the FAA, who asked what help we needed. All that was arranged.
I had sent a note of thanks to Mrs. Bush, and I want her family and all who read this to know how much she interceded and gave help