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<blockquote data-quote="wev" data-source="post: 646544" data-attributes="member: 16783"><p>To the memory of my great aunt, Dorothy Tessen.</p><p>She enlisted in 1939, spent WWII in the Philippines, New Guinea, North Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and England. She was in Korea for the duration of that mess, was chief of nurses at Fort Sam Houston, did a stint in Vietnam, and retired a full colonel in 1974. Though she was among the five ranking female officers at the time and the only one awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious action, she was passed over for a General's star because she was known (unofficially, of course) to be a lesbian. She never made a deal of it; when I asked her, she just said 'we are what we are, they do what they do.'</p><p></p><p>8076th MASH Unit, Korea. She wrote on the back "dec '52 -- bout 15 deg -- balmy"</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]272310[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wev, post: 646544, member: 16783"] To the memory of my great aunt, Dorothy Tessen. She enlisted in 1939, spent WWII in the Philippines, New Guinea, North Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and England. She was in Korea for the duration of that mess, was chief of nurses at Fort Sam Houston, did a stint in Vietnam, and retired a full colonel in 1974. Though she was among the five ranking female officers at the time and the only one awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious action, she was passed over for a General's star because she was known (unofficially, of course) to be a lesbian. She never made a deal of it; when I asked her, she just said 'we are what we are, they do what they do.' 8076th MASH Unit, Korea. She wrote on the back "dec '52 -- bout 15 deg -- balmy" [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]272310._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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