101-year-old Sister Jean, beloved Loyola Chicago fan, is vaccinated and cleared to go to NCAA Tournament
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Loyola University Chicago's beloved 101-year-old chaplain and favorite fan, Sister Jean, has been cleared to attend the NCAA Tournament and support her team.
After the nun was unable to travel to games because of coronavirus restrictions, a university spokesperson confirmed to CBS News that Sister Jean Schmidt has been vaccinated against COVID-19 and can go to the tournament. She will go to Indianapolis to watch the Ramblers play Georgia Tech on Friday. During a news conference Tuesday, she said being able to go was a "little struggle."Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.