I heard from Bill Nye the Science Guy, who believes that the wartime cryptologic background of his mother, Jacqueline Jenkins-Nye, is one reason he himself became a science educator (and a lover of swing music and the Lindy Hop). Bill said he often reflects on her funeral; as a naval veteran she was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, where three of the seven military “riflemen” firing her honorary salute were women. “My mom would have been absolutely delighted,” he wrote; she was a staunch feminist.
