Air Force veteran who thought she didn’t deserve help now listens to others

There may not have been a better landing spot for U.S. Air Force veteran Adrienne MacQueen than the Illinois Veterans Home in Manteno.The 1999 Manteno High School graduate has found her post-military career in the human resources department at the veterans’ home, and it is a place where she can often be found helping those former service members who have taken up residence there.To say she has found her comfort zone would be putting it mildly.After work hours, she simply listens to veterans as they share their military life as well as post-military experiences.And the place she landed three years ago – following a 14-year human resources stay at Shapiro Developmental Center in Kankakee – the former senior airman has settled in not only with a career, but also with something even more rewarding.MacQueen, a Bradley resident since 2006, finds her volunteer work at the veterans’ home and with the veterans’ nonprofit Project Headspace and Timing to be rewarding and meaningful.With Project H