Janice Camille Haskins Huffman
, North Carolina
Janice Camille (Haskins) Huffman was born on 22 December 1940 in Hickory, North Carolina during a time when America was in turmoil, and every member of the family was touched by World War II either through rationing, sacrifice or active service. Her father and mother moved to Baltimore to work in the Martin Marietta Defense plants building bombers. She had an Uncle serving in North Africa, another Uncle was with Patton's 3rd Army in Germany, and her last Uncle was the sole survivor of a B-24 Liberator crash in 1945 in the Philippines. It was not long after the War that she contracted Polio and was admitted to the Hickory Hospital known as the "Miracle in Hickory" built for suffering Polio infected children. As one of the survivors of the epidemic, she was sought out and interviewed by historians, and her story was immortalized in the form of a video…