WP6: Retired Airline and former Air Force pilot, Patty Bear, talks about how her Mennonite childhood compared to her experience in the first wave of women to attend the Air Force Academy and the trauma of her father’s excommunication from the church

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In this excerpt of my interview with Patty Bear, author of From Plain to Plane,: My Mennonite Childhood, A National Scandal, and an Unconventional Soar to Freedom, she talks bout the similarities between her Mennonite childhood and her experience as an Air Force Academy Cadet. She shares why she wrote the book, and talks about how her father's excommunication and shunning from the Mennonite church led her out of that world.

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