Photo Courtesy of Life Magazine
These are the women of the 32nd Company, WACs stationed at Fort Huachuca, AZ, in 1943. Mare never got to Fort Huachua, but she would have found it blazing hot, a drier heat than Bay Slough, and freezing cold in the winter.
Mare would have found a lot of girls like herself there… some even sharing her same name. If you are among the first five people a.) Named Mary or Lee [first name], b.) able to show proof of a female relative in the military, or, c.) able to show proof of a female relative in the military named Mary, you are eligible to receive a free signed copy of MARE’S WAR. (If you have a female relative in the the military named Mary Lee, I am seriously going to come up with some kind of a bonus prize.)
EDITED TO ADD: This giveaway offer ends 11 p.m. PST, Thursday, June 11th! However! There’s still time to snap a picture of MARE’S WAR on a bookstore shelf!
BOY, was I feeling the love yesterday. My buddy Adrienne gave me a shout-out on Facebook (and her friend Christopher made me laugh: Sorry, dude. MARE’S WAR: not so violent.) Sara said nice things about my handwriting and actually photographed herself with bedhead AND eyewear on my behalf. And at Jama’s blog — I got the soup, people. I GOT THE SOUP. AGAIN. I feel so blessed and loved and cuddly, even with the unexpected company that popped up yesterday. A former coworker of Tech Boy’s is on a sabbatical — eight weeks in Europe, natch! — and he and his wife just happened to be in Glasgow around lunchtime. (I have talked to these people twice in my life, and once was when we were introduced, and the other time was at a party. They’re really lovely, but if you could see my desk/house, you’d know the depth of my shrieks minutes before they arrived…)
Thanks for celebrating with me, and meanwhile, keep scanning those bookstore shelves!