Dorothy Weems

“I chose to sign up as I was the oldest in my family and none of my cousins could go, so I felt as if I was the one to serve our country. I was only 19 years old and needed my father's permission. He agreed so long as I promised not to go overseas, which never happened as I went through basic training and then to a specialist school as a dental technician. We cleaned the teeth of the new recruits before they shipped out…some had never been to a dentist.”