Lieutenant Grace Finley taught some of the young marines about to ship out to Iraq in 1943, to help the British in the Near East campaigns, and she packed an instructive booklet away with her keepsakes.
She was one of the college graduate women who, post-Pearl Harbor, signed up for officer training as their patriotic duty to "free a marine to fight."
Her vintage Iraq booklet was stashed in a campaign desk, dating from World War II, along with love letters to her husband, a Marine officer serving in the South Pacific, and old-fashioned box cameras. It was stored away for six decades in her garage.
Today, five years after the US launched its invasion and occupation of Iraq, the common-sense advice to GIs is still pertinent.
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