successfully 388.suc.003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Every day, Sister Antonia Brenner touches the life, mind and heart of someone in desperate need. Every day she impacts the future of another human being. Every day she saves lives and souls.

Sister Antonia lives in a prison cell in Tiajuana, Mexico. She is a Missionary Nun who has made a penitentiary her "home". In 1986, while working with a charity in Mexico, Aid for Baja, California, Sister Antonia entered prison for the first time. She was so profoundly affected that she was compelled to return, permanently and voluntarily.

She begins each day with the prison roll call that is not complete until her name has been called. Hers is not a 9 to 5 job; she is on call 24 hours a day. She has full run of the prison and walks about unescorted, serving the over 2500 residents' spiritual and practical needs. If a prisoner needs a blanket or medical attention for a toothache or needs words of praise and encouragement for a personal accomplishment, or craves a smiling hug, Sister Antonia makes sure that they get what they need.

Many things that seem inconsequential to most, are miracles for the inmates, thanks to Sister Antonia. She intervenes on the prisoners' behalf with the system. She visits their families, children and sick relatives; bringing them news from the outside. Sister is the "Mama figure" to all the male and female residents of the prison, helping them to see a future beyond the prison walls.

Sister Antonia has successfully started a hospice program for inmates who are terminally ill. She says, "People say to me that prisoners should lose their rights--that is the price they must pay for their crimes". Sister's answer, "I say, lose their freedom, yes. But deny the positive power of love within a prison, and you end up with only violent, vengeful energy". She believes this evil energy can be rechanneled in a positive direction with people returning to society.

She makes rehabilitation a reality, restoring self respect. Sister Antonia Brenner asks for nothing, yet gives everything to make a difference in the lives of people most would rather forget.

Women's International Center proudly honors Sister Antonia's devotion to humanity with the deeply deserved Living Legacy Award.

sector 332.sec.003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

At first, when we reached the border and I arrived with my division - and I arrived after 24 hours; that means on the 7th in the morning - I was in the northern section of the Suez Canal, and I took command of the northern sector, and I found out that all the strongholds were surrounded, although none of them had been taken yet; that the Egyptians were crossing and crossing and crossing on bridge-heads, and that the tank force sent to this sector... I met the brigade commander, with two tanks and one APC, and all the rest were all either stuck in marshes near the Canal, and had gone for help, or [had been] hit, and I understood that the Sinai division had very great casualties. They had only 10 tanks left after the first night. My forces were rushing in; an Egyptian force attacked us and tried to block our way. While we tried to get off the tank carriers, we were attacked. I turned a brigade against them, which fought them all day, until they managed to eliminate the commando forces. And then I managed to get to the front and deploy along the northern sector, and to begin to evacuate the Sinai division forces, the regular soldiers who had fought there all night, and to organize forces, and to structure new forces. That went on until the afternoon, from the morning to the afternoon. Forces kept rushing in, and it continued at night. The convoy of my division spread out from El Arish toani, maybe 110 kilometers, on a narrow road between sand dunes. It advanced and advanced, but I knew it would take a long time before it would be concentrated in one spot. And we also gave preference to the tanks to move forward, and artillery and engineers and infantry came in later; first the tanks rushed into the front.