Move Over Amelia, That’s My Grandma’s Place in History – Celebrating the First Woman to Fly Around the World

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I should be in a small aircraft taking my first flying lesson in my grandmothers honor, but thanks to the COVID-19 shut-downs, this dream is on pause.

Fifty-six years ago, my grandmother, Jerrie Mock, did something that the world still gets wrong she was the first woman to fly around the world.

Jerrie answers the phone immediately after arrival in Hawaii, round-the-world flight 

In elementary school, teachers told us that Amelia Earhart was the...