{"id":105402,"date":"2020-09-24T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105402"},"modified":"2020-09-23T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T01:22:11","slug":"oldest-living-us-marine-celebrates-107th-birthday-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105402","title":{"rendered":"Oldest living US Marine celebrates 107th birthday in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sgt. Dot Cole joined the Marines in 1943. (Courtesy: City of Kannapolis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The KoB sends us word on the 107th birthday of this Marine.<\/p>\n

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The oldest living\u00a0U.S. Marine\u00a0celebrated her 107th birthday in\u00a0Kannapolis, N.C., over the weekend, with a happy birthday greeting from the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Dot Cole joined the Marines in 1943, trained at Camp Lejeune, then went to\u00a0Quantico\u00a0for an administrative role, the city of Kannapolis posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Dorothy Schmidt Cole was born Sept. 19, 1913 in Warren,\u00a0Penn., and currently lives in Kannapolis.<\/p>\n

She enlisted following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and was assigned to what had been a male-dominated field \u2013 freeing up personnel to fight the war in the Pacific, according to the Marines.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone was out doing something,\u201d she explained in a video posted to the Marine Corps\u2019 official Facebook account. \u201cThe women helping the Red Cross \u2013 or even in churches, they were knitting things. So I decided that I wanted to do something, and I would go into the Marine Corps.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Happy birthday, Marine! Semper Fi!<\/p>\n

What an incredible life. When she was born there was still an Austro-Hungarian Empire, Arizona had only been a state for a year and a half, and she would have been old enough to have personal memories of WWI, the Spanish Flu, the Roarin’ 20’s, the Great Depression, and everything that came after it. In 1913, $525 would buy you one of them new Ford Model T Runabouts (they’d only been in production for five years at that point). The height of advanced technology was the Avro 504<\/a> and the Marconi Wireless. AM Radio probably wasn’t a “thing” for her until her teens (or later).<\/p>\n

Source; Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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