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Meet Your Neighbor: CWO Annie Grimes, USMC, Ret.
By Terry Louderback
When you meet Chief
Warrant Officer Annie L.
Grimes, USMC, Retired,
it’s not difficult to imagine her in military uniform.
The Arlington
native stands ramrod
straight, even though it’s
been almost 30 years
since she last put on her
dress blues and 43 years
since her official retirement. As the first black
woman Marine officer,
Grimes holds a position of
honor in our nation’s
history.
That being said,
Grimes had no intention
of making history when
she walked into a Chicago
post office during the
winter of 1950. The 24year-old had just finished
photography school and
purchased a press camera.
When she saw twenty
other applicants waiting to
interview for a photographer’s position, she decided the odds were not in
her favor and remembered
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