On a Flight, a Woman Shamed a Young Soldier — The Next Day, She Saw His Name in the News and Broke Down

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In seat 14B, separated from him by only an armrest, sat Margaret Patterson, fifty-three years old, recently retired from a career in banking, mother of two grown sons, grandmother of four. She wore a sensible pantsuit and carried a hardcover book she hadn’t opened once during the flight. Instead, she’d been watching continue reading …