kg4kww
03-29-2007, 04:01 AM
Thanks Mrs. Winters for all you did.
BOONSBORO, Maryland (AP) -- The last known surviving American female World War I veteran, a refined Civil War buff who in 1916 met with the secretary of the Navy to promote women in the military, has died. She was 109.
Charlotte Winters died Tuesday at a nursing home near Boonsboro in northwest Maryland, the U.S. Naval District in Washington announced. Her death leaves just five known surviving American World War I veterans.
Full Story (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/28/wwi.veteran.ap/index.html)
BOONSBORO, Maryland (AP) -- The last known surviving American female World War I veteran, a refined Civil War buff who in 1916 met with the secretary of the Navy to promote women in the military, has died. She was 109.
Charlotte Winters died Tuesday at a nursing home near Boonsboro in northwest Maryland, the U.S. Naval District in Washington announced. Her death leaves just five known surviving American World War I veterans.
Full Story (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/28/wwi.veteran.ap/index.html)