Airmen from the 86th Medical Group delivered baby in cargo bay of U.S. Air Force C-17

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15. And the beat goes on.

This baby and her mother are now part a long experience of refugees coming to America.

There have been babies born on ships headed to America since the time of the Puritans. Refugees fleeing persecution or poverty and starvation. Mother Nature has her own timing regardless of our plans and situations.

In the late 1800s my great grandmother almost became part of that experience. She was 8 months pregnant when she, her husband, and their 3 children (ages 1, 3, and 5) fled Germany as political refugees. My grandfather was considerate enough to wait until they had been in the US for 2 weeks before making his appearance as the first in his family to be an American by birth.