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Jacqueline Hoy walked into an intensive care unit soon after the Cold War began, becoming one of the Navy's first female nurses to treat gravely wounded male troops.

Her husband, Lt. Col. James Hoy Sr., shipped to the Philippines in 1965 and worked in a operating room so busy with the Vietnam War's gunshot victims that they tore out the maternity ward to make more room.

And their son, Col. James Hoy Jr., commanded nuclear units in West Germany capable of attacking the Soviet Union - until the Berlin Wall tumbled, the Iron Curtain imploded and suddenly his archenemies were his allies.

A Hoy served in the U.