USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it

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USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it

WASHINGTON (AP) — He was special, Albert Votaw's daughter remembers all these decades later.Cathy Votaw is 70 now, more than a dozen years older than her father lived to be. She describes a man with a larger-than-life personality and a love of fun — as if you couldn't tell that from the photos, which show an outrageous handlebar mustache and a penchant for bowties sewn by his wife.Each year on April 18, the anniversary of the 1983 bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut that took the lives of her father and 62 others, a persistent sense of loss awakens ..