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Final Flight, Final Fight: My Grandmother, the WASP, and Arlington National Cemetery
by Erin Miller
When Elaine Danforth Harmon — one of the pioneering Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II — made her final request to be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, she never expected the battle that would follow. What began as a family’s desire to honor a woman of courage became a full-blown national campaign to right an injustice.
In Final Flight, Final Fight, Erin Miller weaves together a powerful memoir, a historical reckoning, and a political crusade. Through personal memories, archival storytelling, and her own legal and advocacy work, Miller recounts:
- Her grandmother’s service as one of the first women to fly for the United States military
- The decades of institutional resistance to recognizing WASP as veterans
- How Erin led a grassroots, social-media, and legislative effort to pass a law ensuring WASP veterans — including her grandmother — could be inurned at Arlington
- The broader legacy of women aviators, gender barriers, and honoring unsung heroes
With a foreword by Senator Martha McSally, Final Flight, Final Fight is both a tribute and a call to action: a daughter’s devotion, a granddaughter’s mission, and a story of justice finally served.
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