The Stars and Stripes is reporting that one of the casualties in the Red Line Metro train wreck on Monday was a former commander of the National Guard in DC;
The nine victims of the Metro train collision in Washington included the recently retired commanding general of the D.C. National Guard and his wife; two working moms; a retired teacher who was working as a substitute, and a woman who worked with nurses around the world.
Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr., 62, and his wife Ann, 62, were killed Monday afternoon when two trains collided on the Red Line. They lived in Washington.
U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton wrote in an e-mail that she developed a close relationship with Wherley, especially during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as D.C. National Guard members were transformed from weekend warriors to Army troops in battle.
A retired major general on public transportation. Bet we’ll never see Eleanor Holmes Norton on the Metro.
