Women veterans bond & pay it forward | News [Video]

BANGOR–Two Maine women who served in different branches of the military during different decades have formed a bond unlike any other. Renee Gilmore is an Air Force veteran while 93-year-old Dolores Hainer is a former army nurse; both of them now volunteer with the Cole Land Transportation Museum’s “Interview a Veteran’ program.

“Renee is the one I was introduced to,” said Dolores Hainer. “It’s been about a month now, at the most, and I think I have known her forever. It’s reconnected me to the military.”

At 93-years-old, Dolores Hainer no longer drives. Losing that independence was not easy for this former army nurse. However, thanks to the friendship and the transportation of former Air Force veteran Renee Gilmore, Hainer can continue to share her experience of serving at the Brook Army Medical Center in Texas during the KoreanWar with Maine students who visit the …