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cmyr
03-19-2010, 01:08 PM
Rib Mountain woman's life changed when she served in Marines during World War II
Keith Uhlig is a writer for the Wausau Daily Herald. March 19, 2010


Ruth Hawks says she joined the U.S. Marines in 1943 partly to please her father.

He was a clerk at a Madison manufacturing company, and when all the other guys gathered around at lunch time, talk naturally flowed to their sons in the military, doing their bit in World War II.

rest of story and pic here: http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20103190352