She is a real-life Rosie the Riveter before joining the Marines during World War II. The 101-year-old San Diego woman received the honor she deserved at Mount Soledad.
She pioneered the way for women to serve in the military, and 77 years after her service, Randy Tidmore is getting a thank you.On Saturday at Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial, she was given a plaque joining other veterans on the walls, including her husband, Terry.
“If I'm cremated, I don't know. I'll be scattered, and this will be a place for my husband and I to both be,” she said. Randy is 101 years old. But her legacy as a woman in the military lives on, and the stories from her time in the Marines do too. “At an intersection, she inadvertently crossed without yielding to the general's marked car. That little incident cost her. Within an hour that incident... it had cost her her license,” Holly Shaffer of Honor Flight San Diego said. “She lost a stripe, and she was given two months of mass duty where she washed dishes in the scullery.”But with her honor Saturday at Mt. Soledad. Her service and legacy will be shared with visitors for years to come.
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