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Marines Try to Recruit 78-Year-Old Woman
Marines Try to Recruit 78-Year-Old Woman
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25 March, 2006


SAUGUS, Calif. - Sonia Goldstein was flattered by the nice recruiting letter asking her to consider becoming one of "the few, the proud." But at age 78, she believes she‘s just a little old to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps.

The letter told her the corps could use her unique language skills, but also warned that life as a Marine would test her physical and mental abilities "beyond anything you‘ve ever known."

"I‘ll do whatever I could for this wonderful country we live in," she said. "But you know, this is kind of stretching it a bit."

"Seventy-eight is obviously too old," Kloppel added.

http://localnewsleader.com/jackson/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=164207

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