\u201cEverybody seemed to have boys (in their families), but my mother had five girls\u201d Pogge said. \u201cAnd so I put my name on the list, and we had somebody in the service.\u201d<\/p>\n
A coal miner\u2019s daughter with four sisters, Pogge was sent for training in Colorado, where she served as a typing clerk.<\/p>\n
During her time there Pogge maintained her Methodist faith at the on-base chapel and started a choir. She would do stints during the next couple of years at multiple bases across the country, including Iowa, Pennsylvania and Maryland, singing in every chapel along the way.<\/p>\n
A table scrapbook from those years contains several black-and-white shots of a younger Pogge, with dark hair and a shy smile. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We got the sad news that 101 year-old World War II veteran, Emma Eliza Ball Pogge … Emma Eliza Ball Pogge, WWII vet, passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"emma_pogge001_t640\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/emma_pogge001_t640-199x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n