1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 2 00:00:06,740 --> 00:00:09,100 Hello . I am Sarah paul , champion for 3 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:10,878 the women's federal program and 4 00:00:10,878 --> 00:00:12,878 observance of women's history month 5 00:00:12,878 --> 00:00:15,630 that is annually observed in March this 6 00:00:15,630 --> 00:00:17,686 year . We're honoring women who have 7 00:00:17,686 --> 00:00:19,463 inspired us . One woman who has 8 00:00:19,463 --> 00:00:22,060 inspired me is Miss IDa B Wells . Ida 9 00:00:22,070 --> 00:00:23,780 was an american investigative 10 00:00:23,780 --> 00:00:26,330 journalist in the civil rights movement . 11 00:00:26,340 --> 00:00:28,860 She was a founder of the N double A CP , 12 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,184 founder of the first black women's 13 00:00:31,184 --> 00:00:33,296 suffrage group , Writer of books such 14 00:00:33,296 --> 00:00:35,930 as a red record and seven horrors after 15 00:00:35,930 --> 00:00:39,030 being driven out of her home and office 16 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,130 in Memphis Tennessee in the late 1800s . 17 00:00:42,140 --> 00:00:44,010 She persisted in her pursuits to 18 00:00:44,010 --> 00:00:46,090 educate people on the atrocities . 19 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:49,150 American African Americans faced her 20 00:00:49,150 --> 00:00:51,800 perseverance , devotion , passion to a 21 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,910 cause and set of unpopular topics and 22 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,170 actions is nothing short of brave and 23 00:00:57,170 --> 00:00:59,990 inspiring . This is why IDa B . Wells 24 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,160 is a woman who inspires me . Hello , My 25 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:05,500 name is Colonel friend yet a tailor . I 26 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:07,444 worked for D . L . A . Disposition 27 00:01:07,444 --> 00:01:09,167 services . The woman that most 28 00:01:09,167 --> 00:01:11,389 influenced me over my life is my mother 29 00:01:11,540 --> 00:01:14,710 draw the maps . A single mother of 30 00:01:14,710 --> 00:01:17,470 three . She raised us all to be 31 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,760 hardworking , intelligent individuals 32 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:22,876 Though she passed away some 17 years 33 00:01:22,876 --> 00:01:25,360 ago . Her life lessons still live with 34 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,500 me today . Hard work , education and 35 00:01:28,510 --> 00:01:30,840 family and that's what I use now with 36 00:01:30,850 --> 00:01:33,430 my family and my career in my life's 37 00:01:33,430 --> 00:01:35,950 journey . I have used those words to 38 00:01:35,950 --> 00:01:38,490 guide me and everything that I do . It 39 00:01:38,490 --> 00:01:40,490 has made me a stronger and a better 40 00:01:40,490 --> 00:01:42,890 person . She never said the word . I 41 00:01:42,900 --> 00:01:45,880 can't . She always found a way to lift 42 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,850 us up and make things happen . I will 43 00:01:48,850 --> 00:01:51,090 forever and always use those life 44 00:01:51,090 --> 00:01:53,650 lessons that she provided to me in my 45 00:01:53,650 --> 00:01:55,790 livestream . Hello , I'm retired 46 00:01:55,790 --> 00:01:57,970 chaplain Greg van you column with the 47 00:01:57,970 --> 00:02:00,640 1/10 wing and it's an honor to be asked 48 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,770 to give a short little testimony of a 49 00:02:03,770 --> 00:02:07,030 woman in my life . I met my wife sue 50 00:02:07,030 --> 00:02:09,470 about 18 years ago . We have now been 51 00:02:09,470 --> 00:02:12,110 married for 14 years . She came into my 52 00:02:12,110 --> 00:02:14,680 life with three young Children . I had 53 00:02:14,690 --> 00:02:16,912 three Children that were already out of 54 00:02:16,912 --> 00:02:18,860 the house . She came in and she 55 00:02:18,860 --> 00:02:21,350 exemplified humility . 56 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,807 Something about my wife is that that I 57 00:02:24,807 --> 00:02:26,862 know in the air Force we say service 58 00:02:26,862 --> 00:02:29,030 before self , but for my wife she has 59 00:02:29,030 --> 00:02:32,100 the spirit of humility . Whether she 60 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:35,140 was helping work at the 1/10 wing when 61 00:02:35,140 --> 00:02:37,362 we would do marriage weekends , whether 62 00:02:37,362 --> 00:02:39,473 she's at calvary Reformed Church here 63 00:02:39,473 --> 00:02:41,330 in Kalamazoo , serving in the 64 00:02:41,330 --> 00:02:43,450 Children's ministry and the jodi's 65 00:02:43,450 --> 00:02:45,450 closet ministry of giving away free 66 00:02:45,450 --> 00:02:48,830 clothes . She is continually thinking 67 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:50,980 about the needs , physical and 68 00:02:50,980 --> 00:02:53,180 spiritual needs of others and I just 69 00:02:53,180 --> 00:02:55,347 want to say thank you to her . She has 70 00:02:55,347 --> 00:02:57,347 taught me much about being a humble 71 00:02:57,450 --> 00:02:59,860 person , humble child of God , 72 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:04,000 I'm sure in your life you have women in 73 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,167 your life too . And I highly encourage 74 00:03:06,167 --> 00:03:08,333 you to lift those women up during this 75 00:03:08,333 --> 00:03:10,444 time and to give them the respect the 76 00:03:10,444 --> 00:03:12,611 love and the honor that they deserve . 77 00:03:12,940 --> 00:03:14,884 Hello , my name is Master Sergeant 78 00:03:14,884 --> 00:03:17,940 Angelica Montano's . I work with D . L . 79 00:03:17,940 --> 00:03:20,340 A Disposition services san Antonio D . 80 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:22,240 E . S . U . Five . I'm currently 81 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:25,840 serving in camp arab john kuwait uh the 82 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,062 woman who I will be talking about today 83 00:03:28,062 --> 00:03:30,430 is Irena kenya and she is my grandma . 84 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,690 I've known her since I was born . Um , 85 00:03:32,690 --> 00:03:35,600 She has impacted my life and my journey 86 00:03:35,610 --> 00:03:38,200 by being very motivated and hardworking 87 00:03:38,210 --> 00:03:40,520 woman . Um , she's seen a lot of 88 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:42,742 changes throughout the decades and I've 89 00:03:42,742 --> 00:03:44,687 never heard her complain about the 90 00:03:44,687 --> 00:03:47,130 stresses in life as she got older and 91 00:03:47,130 --> 00:03:49,297 it was harder for her to move around . 92 00:03:49,297 --> 00:03:51,850 She never stopped and enjoying the 93 00:03:51,860 --> 00:03:53,971 things that she liked to do in life . 94 00:03:53,971 --> 00:03:57,520 Um , as she passed , I found a letter 95 00:03:57,530 --> 00:04:01,100 in spanish that says I am , I can , it 96 00:04:01,110 --> 00:04:04,250 is easy and today I will and she has 97 00:04:04,250 --> 00:04:06,530 inspired me to never take the things in 98 00:04:06,530 --> 00:04:09,110 life for granted because tomorrow is 99 00:04:09,110 --> 00:04:12,390 never promised and to always go for 100 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,567 your hopes and your dreams and goals . 101 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:16,673 Good afternoon . My name is Mark 102 00:04:16,673 --> 00:04:19,007 Hulbert and I'm uh in the D . D . C . M . 103 00:04:19,007 --> 00:04:21,062 O . Office and logistics information 104 00:04:21,062 --> 00:04:23,007 service and today I'm here to talk 105 00:04:23,007 --> 00:04:25,120 about women's history month . Now , 106 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,230 typically I could expound upon , you 107 00:04:27,230 --> 00:04:29,230 know , all the great females in our 108 00:04:29,230 --> 00:04:31,397 history um that really , you know made 109 00:04:31,397 --> 00:04:33,397 remarkable things , done remarkable 110 00:04:33,397 --> 00:04:35,770 things and made an imprint on a lot of 111 00:04:35,780 --> 00:04:39,020 people's lives . Uh females uh such as 112 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:41,298 Rebecca Felton who was the first U . S . 113 00:04:41,298 --> 00:04:45,040 Senator in 1922 at the ripe age of 87 114 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,390 years old or I could have talked about 115 00:04:47,390 --> 00:04:49,446 Shirley Chisholm , who was the first 116 00:04:49,446 --> 00:04:52,020 african american Woman in Congress in 117 00:04:52,020 --> 00:04:54,970 1969 . Or of course I think we all 118 00:04:54,970 --> 00:04:56,914 probably have heard about and know 119 00:04:56,914 --> 00:04:58,970 about uh Sandra Day O'Connor who was 120 00:04:58,970 --> 00:05:01,137 the first female U . S . Supreme Court 121 00:05:01,137 --> 00:05:04,800 justice in 1981 . Now . 122 00:05:04,810 --> 00:05:07,730 Typically I probably would have uh had 123 00:05:07,730 --> 00:05:09,786 a big script that I would have wrote 124 00:05:09,786 --> 00:05:11,952 now . So everything flowed and sounded 125 00:05:11,952 --> 00:05:14,174 eloquently . Um but I think what really 126 00:05:14,174 --> 00:05:16,286 hits home more is when you speak from 127 00:05:16,286 --> 00:05:18,508 the heart . So some of my words may not 128 00:05:18,508 --> 00:05:18,290 be , you know , the best words or this 129 00:05:18,290 --> 00:05:20,568 may not flow as eloquently as possible . 130 00:05:20,568 --> 00:05:22,734 Um but what I really want to take away 131 00:05:22,734 --> 00:05:24,901 is the impact of what I have to say on 132 00:05:24,901 --> 00:05:27,012 women's history month . So the person 133 00:05:27,012 --> 00:05:29,234 that I chose to talk about and this may 134 00:05:29,234 --> 00:05:31,290 sound cliche to some , but it's near 135 00:05:31,290 --> 00:05:33,234 and dear to my heart is my mom pam 136 00:05:33,234 --> 00:05:35,750 Hubbard . Um Did she do extraordinary 137 00:05:35,750 --> 00:05:37,917 things in history that a lot of people 138 00:05:37,917 --> 00:05:39,920 know about ? No , but she was 139 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,430 extraordinary in my eyes as a mom . Um 140 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,551 I have about five key points that I'd 141 00:05:45,551 --> 00:05:47,718 like to highlight and talk about about 142 00:05:47,718 --> 00:05:49,829 why my mom is important to me when it 143 00:05:49,829 --> 00:05:52,162 comes to women's history . First of all , 144 00:05:52,162 --> 00:05:54,218 and most importantly , she taught me 145 00:05:54,218 --> 00:05:56,440 that life , it's not about power , it's 146 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,329 not about career , it's not about 147 00:05:58,329 --> 00:06:00,440 position and it's not about wealth in 148 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:02,607 terms of monetary of value . What life 149 00:06:02,607 --> 00:06:05,940 is truly about is love with family and 150 00:06:05,940 --> 00:06:09,500 friends . And when you ground yourself 151 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:11,750 in life and you pay attention to what's 152 00:06:11,750 --> 00:06:14,190 most important to you , you'll realize 153 00:06:14,190 --> 00:06:16,246 that when we leave this earth , it's 154 00:06:16,246 --> 00:06:18,412 not about the clothes that I had on my 155 00:06:18,412 --> 00:06:20,412 back , it's not about the fancy car 156 00:06:20,412 --> 00:06:22,634 that I drove , it's not about the money 157 00:06:22,634 --> 00:06:24,690 that I had in my pocket , it's about 158 00:06:24,690 --> 00:06:24,510 the love that I had in my heart and the 159 00:06:24,510 --> 00:06:26,566 love that I was surrounded with from 160 00:06:26,566 --> 00:06:28,860 family and the friends that we choose 161 00:06:28,870 --> 00:06:32,790 to put into our lives . Secondly , she 162 00:06:32,790 --> 00:06:35,012 taught me about grace and forgiveness . 163 00:06:35,012 --> 00:06:37,179 And this comes because , you know , as 164 00:06:37,179 --> 00:06:39,234 a son , there's been many times I've 165 00:06:39,234 --> 00:06:41,290 needed her grace and forgiveness for 166 00:06:41,290 --> 00:06:43,346 some of the acts that I've done as a 167 00:06:43,346 --> 00:06:43,270 child and some of the things that I put 168 00:06:43,270 --> 00:06:45,590 her through , Uh , and even to this day 169 00:06:45,590 --> 00:06:47,534 as an adult , you know , decisions 170 00:06:47,534 --> 00:06:49,868 never stopped , life choices never stop . 171 00:06:49,868 --> 00:06:51,979 Once you graduate high school in turn 172 00:06:51,979 --> 00:06:54,146 18 and you become an adult , you think 173 00:06:54,146 --> 00:06:56,257 life is gonna be great life sometimes 174 00:06:56,257 --> 00:06:58,423 actually gets a lot harder because now 175 00:06:58,423 --> 00:07:00,590 you're in adulthood and you have a lot 176 00:07:00,590 --> 00:07:02,757 of different bigger decisions that you 177 00:07:02,757 --> 00:07:02,240 have to make in life choices that you 178 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,880 have to make some turn out to be great 179 00:07:04,890 --> 00:07:07,057 and some turned out to be not so great 180 00:07:07,057 --> 00:07:09,057 and I've had so many , not so great 181 00:07:09,057 --> 00:07:11,001 moments in my life and some of the 182 00:07:11,001 --> 00:07:13,057 choices that I've made , but the one 183 00:07:13,057 --> 00:07:15,057 person that I knew , I could always 184 00:07:15,057 --> 00:07:17,223 count on that would be there for me to 185 00:07:17,223 --> 00:07:18,890 give me grace and to offer me 186 00:07:18,890 --> 00:07:21,112 forgiveness for any of the life choices 187 00:07:21,112 --> 00:07:23,168 that I've made has been my mom Third 188 00:07:23,168 --> 00:07:26,140 one thing that I realized at 46 years 189 00:07:26,140 --> 00:07:28,362 old all throughout my life that wants a 190 00:07:28,362 --> 00:07:30,660 baby , always the baby , she brought me 191 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:32,827 into this world , she birthed me , she 192 00:07:32,827 --> 00:07:35,080 coddled me , she fed me , she changed 193 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:37,191 my diapers , you know , she got me to 194 00:07:37,191 --> 00:07:39,524 school and kind of raised me , you know , 195 00:07:39,524 --> 00:07:41,890 throughout . Um but as I just mentioned 196 00:07:41,890 --> 00:07:44,180 previously , many times in life we we 197 00:07:44,180 --> 00:07:46,480 fall or we fail or you know , we have 198 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:48,830 circumstances that come up and my mom 199 00:07:48,830 --> 00:07:51,052 taught me that I'm always a baby in her 200 00:07:51,052 --> 00:07:53,219 eyes , she's always gonna be there for 201 00:07:53,219 --> 00:07:55,163 me to listen to , to guide me , to 202 00:07:55,163 --> 00:07:57,330 mentor me , to coach me and to show me 203 00:07:57,330 --> 00:08:01,120 love fourth . And probably one of the 204 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,176 biggest things that really resonated 205 00:08:03,176 --> 00:08:05,009 with me that my mom taught me is 206 00:08:05,009 --> 00:08:07,290 courage and why do I say courage from 207 00:08:07,290 --> 00:08:09,512 my mom's perspective because it takes a 208 00:08:09,512 --> 00:08:11,512 lot of courage to have a family and 209 00:08:11,512 --> 00:08:14,260 raise a family . My mom and dad , they 210 00:08:14,260 --> 00:08:16,970 have a beautiful love story . They they 211 00:08:16,970 --> 00:08:19,790 met in elementary school , my dad saw 212 00:08:19,790 --> 00:08:21,846 this really pretty girl walking home 213 00:08:21,846 --> 00:08:23,901 from school , her hands were full of 214 00:08:23,901 --> 00:08:25,957 books and he asked if he could carry 215 00:08:25,957 --> 00:08:28,068 her books for her and walk her home . 216 00:08:28,068 --> 00:08:30,123 And love was set into motion on that 217 00:08:30,123 --> 00:08:29,940 very day in elementary school . And 218 00:08:29,940 --> 00:08:32,260 they've stayed together ever since now . 219 00:08:32,260 --> 00:08:34,427 The courage part comes in because they 220 00:08:34,427 --> 00:08:36,427 got pregnant when they were in high 221 00:08:36,427 --> 00:08:38,482 school my mom's junior year . So she 222 00:08:38,482 --> 00:08:40,649 had to make a choice . Did she want to 223 00:08:40,649 --> 00:08:44,030 keep my my sister have her give her up 224 00:08:44,030 --> 00:08:46,260 for adoption or you know maybe possibly 225 00:08:46,260 --> 00:08:48,427 have an abortion . She could have made 226 00:08:48,427 --> 00:08:50,482 those choices . Um and continue down 227 00:08:50,482 --> 00:08:52,593 with school . She decided to make the 228 00:08:52,593 --> 00:08:54,620 choice of having my sister . Uh She 229 00:08:54,620 --> 00:08:56,731 dropped out of high school and didn't 230 00:08:56,731 --> 00:08:58,731 finish her her senior year . So she 231 00:08:58,731 --> 00:09:00,509 missed out on a lot of you know 232 00:09:00,509 --> 00:09:02,620 wonderful experiences that many of us 233 00:09:02,620 --> 00:09:04,842 probably have taken for granted but got 234 00:09:04,842 --> 00:09:06,953 to experience that she never did . So 235 00:09:06,953 --> 00:09:09,064 she had the courage to love my sister 236 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,450 and to make that commitment to life 237 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,130 which really resonated with me as I 238 00:09:14,130 --> 00:09:16,186 grew older I didn't really think too 239 00:09:16,186 --> 00:09:18,186 much about it but the more that you 240 00:09:18,186 --> 00:09:20,241 know I've had my three daughters and 241 00:09:20,241 --> 00:09:20,220 the more I look at life in a different 242 00:09:20,220 --> 00:09:22,276 perspective that's really resonating 243 00:09:22,276 --> 00:09:24,680 native with me about the courage that 244 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:26,847 she showed her and my father . But you 245 00:09:26,847 --> 00:09:28,958 know we're here for women's history . 246 00:09:28,958 --> 00:09:31,013 So I'm gonna talk about my mom to go 247 00:09:31,013 --> 00:09:32,902 through that and then she had the 248 00:09:32,902 --> 00:09:34,958 courage to say you know what I'm not 249 00:09:34,958 --> 00:09:37,236 just going to be a high school dropout . 250 00:09:37,236 --> 00:09:36,930 I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna get my 251 00:09:36,930 --> 00:09:39,550 G . E . D . And she did that My parents 252 00:09:39,550 --> 00:09:41,772 married and they've been married for 52 253 00:09:41,772 --> 00:09:45,090 years and thankful for me that that 254 00:09:45,090 --> 00:09:47,090 particular experience in their life 255 00:09:47,090 --> 00:09:49,780 didn't stop them . Uh And and kind of 256 00:09:49,780 --> 00:09:52,080 shade their uh their thoughts on maybe 257 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,302 growing their family because five years 258 00:09:54,302 --> 00:09:56,358 later Mark Hulbert was born . So I'm 259 00:09:56,358 --> 00:09:58,524 grateful for that mom . Thank you very 260 00:09:58,524 --> 00:10:00,691 much . And the final thing that I just 261 00:10:00,691 --> 00:10:02,747 like to share today about my mom and 262 00:10:02,747 --> 00:10:04,580 this really kind of encapsulates 263 00:10:04,580 --> 00:10:06,747 everything that I just talked about um 264 00:10:06,747 --> 00:10:08,747 that she taught me is unconditional 265 00:10:08,747 --> 00:10:11,080 love . You know wrapping all of that up . 266 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,191 You know there's gonna be many things 267 00:10:13,191 --> 00:10:12,880 in in life where we're going to be 268 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,130 disappointed , we're going to be hurt 269 00:10:15,140 --> 00:10:18,050 by people . Um things aren't gonna go 270 00:10:18,050 --> 00:10:20,420 our way . We're probably gonna say 271 00:10:20,420 --> 00:10:23,220 hurtful things mean things . I've said 272 00:10:23,220 --> 00:10:25,164 some hurtful things to you know my 273 00:10:25,164 --> 00:10:27,670 parents to my mom . Um But she 274 00:10:27,670 --> 00:10:30,150 demonstrated unconditional love . She 275 00:10:30,150 --> 00:10:32,150 didn't take the emotions that I was 276 00:10:32,150 --> 00:10:35,060 explaining displaying at times so 277 00:10:35,060 --> 00:10:37,171 personal . She knew that I might have 278 00:10:37,171 --> 00:10:39,282 been hurt or I was really upset about 279 00:10:39,282 --> 00:10:41,504 something and she just really taught me 280 00:10:41,504 --> 00:10:43,727 that it doesn't matter how good life is 281 00:10:43,727 --> 00:10:45,850 going um that even in the worst of 282 00:10:45,850 --> 00:10:48,310 times I'm gonna be there son for you 283 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,487 and I'm gonna love you unconditionally 284 00:10:50,487 --> 00:10:52,542 and I'm going to support you through 285 00:10:52,542 --> 00:10:54,653 the ups and the downs , the highs and 286 00:10:54,653 --> 00:10:56,876 the lows of your life . I'm never gonna 287 00:10:56,876 --> 00:10:58,876 turn my back on you . Once a baby , 288 00:10:58,876 --> 00:11:01,720 always my baby and mom , pam Hubbert 289 00:11:01,730 --> 00:11:03,674 from your son , Mark Hubbard , I'm 290 00:11:03,674 --> 00:11:05,730 honored and privileged to talk to to 291 00:11:05,730 --> 00:11:07,897 the community about you and the impact 292 00:11:07,897 --> 00:11:09,897 that you had in my life for women's 293 00:11:09,897 --> 00:11:12,220 history month . Thank you . I love you 294 00:11:12,230 --> 00:11:14,452 and I hope this resonated with the rest 295 00:11:14,452 --> 00:11:15,160 of you that are watching this video .