(This makes me miss LadyX )
Posted on 11/22/2009 2:40:05 PM PST by ConorMacNessa
On a crisp fall day in a cemetery in Queens, a Marine Corps honor guard blew taps over the country's oldest female Marine.
Sgt. Miriam Cohen did not die jumping on a hand grenade, or storming the beaches of Normandy or battling the Japanese on Iwo Jima.
Most appropriately, she died on Veteran's Day, one day after the 234th birthday of the United States Marines Corps. Cohen lived nearly half as long: She would have been 102 on Dec. 13.
When World War II threatened civilization, this beautiful, gutsy Brooklyn gal answered the call of a bugle, just like the one that played over her coffin Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/11/22/2009-11-22_the_bugles_call_miriam_cohen_nations_oldest_woman_marine_is_laid_to_rest.html#ixzz0XdAA3xOq
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Well this Doggie Officer is sending ***HUGS*** yours.
She was proud to wear the title of "United States Marine" and I am proud to be here to hear of her passing. I will not be honored with anything such as her achievement, but will be honored I was allowed to wear the same uniform!
May God post you at the gates, dear lady. I know you will challenge me when I approach...and will find me friend versus foe.
I am shedding a tear. Bless your very soul.
Yes, I noticed that. In that era, that she was able to look like that at 35 is all the better.
Ah, but, I beg to differ : )
(This makes me miss LadyX )
Bless her.
Now Sgt. Miriam Cohen has been taken to her creator. HE surely will tell her how pleased HE is and have her joined the chorus of Angles that sing forth HIS praise with no tears or pain to endure. We stand at attention and salute her service to her country.
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