<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fbc6cddd-b2a4-49ca-a8d7-551d71eafd13/77B98521-8F37-48D3-8530-AD63DFFEC250/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503571.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503571.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503571.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR"><H2>In WWII, Black Women's Army Unit Helped Mail on Its Way to GIs</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503571.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.washingtonpost.com/img/805E8A1A-AC41-4994-902A-B1C102C0307F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503571.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR"><P> The 6888th arrived in England on Valentine's Day 1945 after a difficult journey across the Atlantic, said Alyce Dixon of the District, at 101 the oldest of the remaining members of the group. During the two-week voyage, submarines menaced the ship carrying the WACs. And as they left the ship that day, a German V-1 rocket, known as a "buzz bomb," exploded, sending the women running for cover, Dixon said. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503571.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR"><P> "It was frightening," she said. "We didn't know what we had gotten ourselves into." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503571.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR"><P> "Some people didn't understand about addressing letters, so they would just write a letter to their son or husband addressed 'To Junior, U.S. Army' or 'To Sam, Army,' " Ragland said. "It was our job to figure out who those soldiers were and get them their mail." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022503571.html?hpid%3Dartslot&sub=AR"><P> The battalion was commanded by Maj. Charity Adams Earley, who had joined the Army in 1942 and became the first black woman to receive a commission, according to the Army. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/77B98521-8F37-48D3-8530-AD63DFFEC250/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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