Nina Petru salutes during a Memorial Day celebration in 2011. | Submitted
Lauren Evans in 2005 during a field exercise at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, Mich., where she was the training officer. | Submitted
Nina Petru and her daughter Kelly Burkhart. | Submitted
When we think of veterans, most likely a picture of a woman is not what immediately springs to mind. But about 1.8 million or 8 percent of the 22.2 million United States veterans are women. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, by 2020, 2 …
