MTHS basketball coach presented with VFW Life Saving Award

Posted: March 21, 2014 1327
Leadership from VFW Post 1040 presented MTHS basketball coach Rachael Moehme (second from left) with the VFW National Life Saving award recently. Pictured left to right: VFW Post 1040 Senior Vice CommanderFrank Martinez, Boehme, VFW Post 1040 Chaplin John Zambrano, VFW Post 1040 Commander Martin Spani.
Leadership from VFW Post 1040 presented MTHS basketball coach Rachael Moehme (second from left) with the VFW National Life Saving award recently. Pictured left to right: VFW Post 1040 Senior Vice Commander Frank Martinez, Boehme, VFW Post 1040 Chaplin John Zambrano, VFW Post 1040 Commander Martin Spani.

The VFW National Life Saving award was presented to Mountlake Terrace High School Girls JV Basketball Coach Rachael Boehme at a recent Mountlake Terrace High School assembly.

Boehme was honored for her rescue of two men from an overturned car in a water-filled ditch on Christmas Eve, 2013. Leadership at VFW Post 1040 had read a local media report about her heroics and submitted a recommendation for the award to the VFW National Headquarters in Kansas City, citing Boehme as truly an “Angel of Mercy.”

Ironically, Boehme had also come to the aid of a pregnant woman whose car had been hit by a fallen tree on Highway 2 at Stevens Pass in December 2012.

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