Thank you for your service....May God bless you, and may you rest in eternally honored peace!
Posted on 11/25/2009 8:26:26 PM PST by Jan Hus
November 18, 2009 Marine Corps News|by Sgt. Randall A. Clinton
NEW YORK — The oldest living female Marine died on Veterans Day and was buried in the Cypress Hills National Cemetery.
Miriam Cohen was one of the oldest females to enlist in 1943, at 35 years old, said Debra Allee, the 101-year-old's niece. Cohen answered her nations calling twice, serving during World War II and the Korean War.
Cohen, a graduate of the Girls High School in Brooklyn (since renamed to Boys & Girls High School), moved to Tuscan, Ariz., when she was 92.
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Thanks for your service, Marine; Rest in peace.
This Marine must have been adamant to sign up in 1943 at age 35.
Semper Fi
Funny I should see this tonight. I just stumbled across an article my father wrote for the Marine Corps Gazette in April 1953, archived on a Marine Corps site.
My mother was in the Marines during WWII (she died many years ago, though). Wonder if she had evern known this woman.
RIP.
Semper Fi, dear Patriot.
The oldest living female Marine died on Veterans Day and was buried in the Cypress Hills National Cemetery. Miriam Cohen was one of the oldest females to enlist in 1943, at 35 years old, said Debra Allee, the 101-year-old's niece. Cohen answered her nations calling twice, serving during World War II and the Korean War.
Semper Fi, Marine.
May God bless and keep you,
May He make His face to shine upon you,
And be gracious unto you.
May He lift up His countenance upon you,
And grant you peace.
May you Rest in Peace Miriam Cohen
| Nam Vet
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