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My Mama Wore Combat Boots!
My Mama Wore Combat Boots!

Cyndee Schaffer, the co-author of the memoir, Mollie’s War: The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe, asks, “How many of us remember this childhood taunt: ‘Your mama wore combat boots’ when we were in elementary school?

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