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The First of the “Golden Fourteen”: Yeoman 2/C Armelda Hattie Greene, USNR (F)
On August 12, 1918—one hundred years ago today—Miss Armelda Hattie Greene became the first African American woman to enlist officially in the United States armed forces. Greene was born in Jackson, Mississippi on August 12, 1888, the oldest child of … Continue reading
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Making WAVES: Depiction of Navy Women in a 1951 Recruiting Comic Book
In honor of yesterday’s 76th anniversary of the creation of the Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), I thought I’d post about this 1951 WAVES recruiting comic book that I found in a file of women’s military recruiting … Continue reading
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Between Us “Girls”: The US Naval Institute’s 2016 Naval History “Athena Conference”
I’m going to call out an admiral and a general in this post, with all due respect and only the kindest of intent. But first, I’d like to start with a story that I’ve told elsewhere. As a lieutenant on … Continue reading
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Writing Life: Down the Rabbit Hole (Again)
I’ve been struggling for a couple of weeks to write the introductory section of Chapter Four of the book Tracy Crow and I are working on. I have pages of research notes and only 1,500 words or so to write. … Continue reading
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The Matriarch of Contemporary Women Veterans’ Literature
Since Cara Hoffman wrote her op-ed “The Things She Carried” for the New York Times in 2014, critics have either pointed out the “absence” of women veterans’ narratives in the canon of war literature, or wondered what female authors today’s women … Continue reading
Writing Life: Year in Review
I’m not usually inclined to write a “year in review,” even in my journal, but I ended up with so many projects about women veterans and writing that a recap seems to be in order – especially since I got … Continue reading
Writing Life: Stitch-and-Bitch
Was recently reading over some of the emails home that served as my journal of our three-year tour in Moscow. My late mother-in-law, God bless her, had the foresight to print out the ones she found interesting and collect them … Continue reading
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Writing Life – Call for Submissions, Upcoming Deadline
The response to our call for submissions to the Veterans Writing Project’s literary journal O-Dark-Thirty for a special themed issue, writing by women veterans, has been gratifying. We’ve received four or five times the usual number of submissions for a quarterly issue, and … Continue reading
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