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Marie Julia Pfeiffer almost didn’t join the Coast Guard during World War II because her mother didn’t approve. But the then 23-year-old felt serving in the Women’s Reserve of the U.S. Coast
Guard would be an appropriate way to honor her brother, who had died in the line of duty in Saipan.