{"id":137896,"date":"2019-02-21T19:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/when-bea-arthur-was-a-us-marine.html"},"modified":"2019-02-21T19:30:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T02:30:29","slug":"when-bea-arthur-was-a-us-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/when-bea-arthur-was-a-us-marine.html","title":{"rendered":"When Bea Arthur was a US Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool little article about Bea Arthur — of Maude<\/i> and Golden Girls<\/i> fame — and her WW2 experience in the Marines.<\/p>\n

Also cool: The Marines were the last service to admit women to support the war effort — but, interestingly enough, the Commandant of the Marines refused to come up with a "cute" name or acronym for the female members of his service. <\/p>\n

'Public opinion favored a catchy nickname for these new female Marines, with suggestions of names like Glamarines and Femarines. General Holcomb wasn’t having any cute names for his Marines. “They are Marines,” he told Life magazine in 1944. “They don’t have a nickname and they don’t need one. . . . They inherit the traditions of Marines. They are Marines.”'<\/i><\/p>\n

Including Bea Arthur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nBea Arthur, US Marine | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans<\/a><\/span>
\nBernice Frankel’s Official Military Personnel File reveals a Golden Girl’s WWII service history.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Cool little article about Bea Arthur — of Maude and Golden Girls fame — and her WW2 experience in the Marines. Also cool: The Marines were the last service to admit women to support the war effort — but, interestingly enough, the Commandant of the Marines refused to come up with a "cute" name or … Continue reading “When Bea Arthur was a US Marine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130960,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-manly-men-of-the-marines-feel-unmanned.html","url_meta":{"origin":137896,"position":0},"title":"The Manly Men of the Marines Feel Unmanned!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Jun-16 6:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently some US Marines (present and past) have their khakis in a wad by the \"pussification\" of their branch of the service by Political Correctness Gone Mad, as the Marine Corps (which now technically allows both men and women to serve in all roles) pursues more gender-neutral language for job\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132646,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/but-first-send-the-marines-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":137896,"position":1},"title":""But first? 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