DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY

During World War II, Shilts says, married women were not allowed to enlist, and women who got pregnant were immediately discharged. That was not always the case.

I was married in 1941, enlisted in the WAAC (then the WAC), served until after V-E Day and was discharged in 1945. I had many WAC buddies who were married and two friends in the WAVEs, also married. One of my bridesmaids was a Marine, and married.

I have no firsthand knowledge of homosexuality in the WACs, but I did go to weddings of my fellow WACs who married GIs while they were overseas.

MARIE WHITTINGTON

Avalon