Size Matters: 1943

The average WWII serviceman's age was 26 according to the Westmoreland papers. The average age of an infantryman (MOS 11B) serving in Vietnam was 22.

http://www.ussboston.org/VietnamMyths.html

http://www.rexnord.com/corporate_profile/history.asp

Apparently the company is now known as Rexnord, and is still in Wisconsin with facilities in other areas around the country; it does aerospace and industrial manufacturing now.

I believe the average age of a soldier or Marine in World War II was nineteen. I know of one fellow who joined up at sixteen, fought in North Africa, transferred to the airborne, fought in the Battle of the Bulge and died in France at twenty, a grizzled veteran of three years hard combat.

How could she possibly be old enough to have a son in the Army? Beautiful!

"Feeling inadequate?"

You can have your howitzer any color you want as long as it's olive drab.

I hope she's not wearing purple socks like those other wartime workers and therefore delegitimizing herself.