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HOLIDAY BULLETIN
Saw Mom (-in-law) on Christmas Eve, and in the course of a chat with a couple of friendly whippersnappers, she corrected me quite crisply: After her contribution to the successful conclusion of World War II, she retired from active Navy service as LIEUTENANT COMMANDER Frances Robinson. (In a subsequent war, I concluded my active service at the enlisted rank Specialist 5.)
And Mom indeed has this postcard, cheerily colorized as the stamp is, hanging on her wall.
For my mother-in-law, from 1942 to 1945 Lieutenant Frances Robinson, U.S. Navy. In some countries women are subject to military conscription, but they have never been drafted in the U.S.; all women chose to join the U.S. military.
I wish I knew who the artist was, I think this is a very handsome stamp and commemorative post card. I bought it for Mom and another for myself, and I think it hangs on Mom's wall. Mom and I chat about Old Veteran Stuff, and I sing her old pop crooner songs from the 1940s. She had the very good fortune to serve during a much more important war than the one I got caught up in, and I'm enormously grateful that she chose to spend the best years of her young life in the Navy during World War II.
