For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran. Childhood and education in Fort Worth; decision to drop out of high school to play professional softball; decision to enlist in Women’s Army Corps in 1944; basic training at Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia; clerical training at Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and Ft. Meade, Maryland; deployment as supply sergeant to Bremerhaven, Germany; impressions of wartime destruction of German cities, suffering of civilians, and conditions of Holocaust sites; injuries sustained in a truck accident; Germans’ attitudes toward American occupation force; presence of gay officers and enlisted personnel in WAC unit and nearby male units; decision not to accept officer training and to leave service; return home; “coming out” experience after the war; opinions regarding “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy; education at Texas Wesleyan College; civilian career as an artist/graphics specialist with Continental Oil Co. and City of Fort Worth; involvement in Agape Metropolitan Community Church and Women in Military Service for America organization; experiences as a tourist in Germany.