This story ran before I got to the Times, but I looked it up the other day. Glad I did. Give it a read. Wes Allison: Janet Rivera is a youthful grandmother who peppers her speech with homey phrases like "okey-dokle," lives on the dairy farm where she was born and keeps a cross-stitched American flag on her refrigerator door.
On Sept. 11, 2001, after the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in a field rattled dishes and scared the dogs, she and other women from her Lutheran church took cakes and perogies to the investigators and firefighters at the scene.
Her husband, Glenn, oversaw security for the Somerset County Sheriff's Department, escorting relatives of the 40 passengers and crew…
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