Posted on Jul 25, 2014
108 year old Female Veteran visits memorial in DC
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WWII World War Two
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Women in the Military
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CDR Thomas Gatliffe
Fortunately (or unfortunately) the subjects of her stories are probably no longer here to present their side in rebuttal. Hope she never met my dad (he was USA Corps of Engineers and would have been about her age) or that he would be mentioned in any of her stories. :-)
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1SG (Join to see)
When I originally saw the news on TV they said she was also a two time Bronze Star Medal recipient. Pretty amazing woman in my opinion.
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Had the honor of greeting a Honor Flight that was entirely WAVES veterans.... and you thought only men were cat callers! I always enjoy meeting the women veterans of WWII, especially if I can pull escort duty with them. They maybe act embarrassed but they love the attention and being treated like a queen. I always go out of my way to talk to them and show them my appreciation.
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SP5 Joel O'Brien
My mother and an aunt were WAVES during WWII. None of their brothers were qualified for service so my grandfather asked them what they were going to do for the war effort.
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Awesome.... just awesome! Love seeing these 'good news' stories for a change!
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I try to bring the more positive to the table MSG. I get tired of all the negative crap, as we hear so much of it (even on here).
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SFC Mark Merino
Amen 1SG (Join to see) Soon all those great stories will be gone and all we will have left are what we read about.
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SFC Gilley, Thank you for sharing this story, she is probably the oldest female veteran. I was able to met my grand mothers Honor Flight in DC and spend those 2 days with her. And the other veterans from South Dakota a few years ago. We had a great time touring and sharing stories.
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Honor flight does an outstanding job helping our WWII vets. I myself have donated to Honor Flight and am glad I did. This was a great story 1SG (Join to see) thank you for sharing. Its great to hear a good story instead of all the bad that we have to hear.
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1SG (Join to see)
I strive every morning to find at least one "good news" article to read. This one really struck me as an inspiring one. I hope that at 108 (if I live that long) I can too be doing things like this.
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