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PATCHES SR. Chaplain User is Offline Joined: 24 Oct 2006 Posts: 12997 Karma: 16 applaud / smite Location: Randolph, County N.C. 9216 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:55 am    Post subject: 103-YEAR-OLD VETERAN WRITES First BOOK · Quote I read this in today's paper and thought it just so awsome that someone at that age to do this. AUTHOR UNKNOW ASSO. PRESS REPORT. NEW BERN (N.C.) (AP)---Few are those women who, just months shy of their 40th birthday, enlist in the U.S. Army during time of war.   Fewer still are those who serve with distinction in over- seas campaigns and then author a memoir about the experience six decades later.   But fewest yet are those who belong to the proud group of which New Bern resident Laura Mae DuFore is a member.   Dufore turned 103 on Dec. 22 and is America's second- oldest female veteran and the oldest surviving member of the now-defunct Women's Army Auxilliary Corps.   A birthday party wastn't what the north Michigan native wanted to speak about. DuFore-quick, clear-eyed and only recently confined to a wheelchair-dips deep into the past to draw on the prsent.   It's something to be almost 103 and to be a first-time author," DuFore said.   DuFore published her candid, "A Life So Full," to chronicle her life and service as a WAAC supply clerk in New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II. The work is a continuation of the independence that has become a hallmark of her long life.   "I don't want to have to rely on taxpayers," she said.   So she wrote the book this year - "all of it, myself," she said - thinking she had some thing to say and something of which people should take note.   As with most significant decisions she's made in her life, she's probabley right.   "It's important for posterity," said Lou Cook, membership vice chairman for the American Legion in North Carolina. "Here we are, losing World War II veterans - and we're trying to capture as much of that history as possible and pass it on to a new generation."   DuFore willingly imparts her lessons.   "Not many people get into as many things as I do," DuFore said. "This is the way I've been since I walked away from home - at 17 years, five months old - without a nickle."   What DuFore would walk into would be a lifetime of accepting challenges, embracing experiences and turning setbacks about-face.   "I've never depended on other people to work for me or wait on me," DuFore said. "When you get older, you have to depend on yourself." Bravo Ms. DuFore May God Bless you with many more years. _________________ Staff Moderator Company XO   M.S.T. Charlie CO. SR. Forum Chaplain I used to ask God if He would come and help me. Then I asked if I could come and help Him. Finally I ended by asking God to do His own work through me.
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afsp90_02 Chairman Joint Chiefs User is Offline Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 11253 Karma: 14 applaud / smite Location: North Carolina 28875 points 0 warnings 0 tempbans	Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:27 am    Post subject: · Quote Wow, God Bless her and those like her. Women suffered greatly in the Philippines during the war as much or more than the men in some cases particularly if captured by the Japanese. _________________ Administrator Forum Chairman Joint Chiefs [Staff CO] Commanding Officer[CO] Forum awards comity Moderator Staff Company staff officer M.S.T. Bravo CO.
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