HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS!

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At the web site of "THIS AIN'T HELL, BUT YOU CAN SEE IT FROM HERE", I learned that today, Wednesday 15 May 2013, is the seventy-second (72) anniversary of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, which would later become the Women's Army Corps.

Service Medal of the
Women's Army Corps

My stepmother, Alma Capps Mallernee, was the one hundred and fourth (104) woman to enlist in the newly created Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.

 

Currently, at the age of ninety-six (96) years old, she resides in the Assisted Living section at Heritage Place in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Cake and ice cream, anyone?

Realistically, and rather sadly to say, I seriously doubt if any of the folks who operate the Assisted Living section at Heritage Place in Fayetteville, North Carolina are aware of the significance of today's anniversary, and even if they did, I rather doubt they'd have any sort of celebration to observe it.

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