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WAVES National Michigan Unit 32 Newsletter

Dolores M. Maillette
Editor
shorelines@aol.com

Oct/Nov/Dec 1999   Page 1

"Still Something Special"

Oct/Nov/Dec 1999

Anchors Aweigh!
Click the flag for music,
it takes awhile to play
U.S. Navy band version

Directory of Officers

PRESIDENT
Marion Grattan

VICE PRESIDENT
Bettie Johnson

SECRETARY
Betty Maloney

TREASURER
Patricia Saint Amour

PAST PRESIDENT
Shirley Croucher

STATE DIRECTOR
Eleanor Robinson

REGIONAL REP
Victoria Lisenbee

NATIONAL PRESIDENT
Jan Roy

Veteran's Day at Michigan State Fair

Bettie Johnson and Ruth Gaerig are shown as they place a wreath at the Veterans' State Memorial at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit, on September 4, 1999.

Unit 101 was also represented in the ceremony which honored deceased veteran's of all wars as well as the "Veteran of the Year".

World War II Memorial

President Clinton signed Public Law 103-32 on May 25, 1993, authorizing the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish the World War II Memorial in our Nation’s Capital. Primary funding for the $100 million Memorial must be raised from private contributions. The memorial will be located on 7.4 acres of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., directly between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.

The memorial is considered a long overdue tribute to the Americans who helped win WWII, the largest war of all time and the defining event of the twentieth century. Anyone who served in the armed forces during WWII, and any civilian who helped on the home front, is eligible for the Registry of Remembrance. Charter memberships are available for $20.

Write: WWII Memorial Fund, American Battle Monuments Commission, PO Box 98147, Washington, D.C. 20090-8147.

According to some experts, it was Admiral Grace Hopper, USN, who incorporated the infamous "mm/dd/yy" code in the computer language that later served as the base of COBOL, the so-called "mother of all Y2K" programs.

Hopper recognized the need for a computer language in plain English in the 1950s, and created Flow-matic, which evolved into COBOL, now implicated as a major source of the Y2K glitch. Still, most agree, it would be inaccurate to pin the blame on Hopper alone. Robert Bemer, a partner of Hopper, told Time recently: "If Grace Hopper and I were at fault, it was for making the language so easy that anybody could get in on the act."

"Amazing Grace" also coined the term "computer bug" when a supercomputer malfunctioned due to a moth in the works. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, they said it had bugs in it.

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