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A restoration effort in underway at the site of Montford Point, a 1940s-era segregated Marine base in North Carolina, which is threatened by the effects of climate change.
Dorothy Schmidt Cole, oldest living Marine, dies at age 107 By Staff and Wire Reports Published Dorothy Schmidt Cole (USMC) Beth Kluttz, Cole's only child, confirmed Friday that her mother died of a heart attack at Kluttz's home in Kannapolis, North Carolina, on Jan. 7. Cole, also affectionately known as Dot, was born on Sept. 19, 1913 in Warren, Pennsylvania. She enlisted to join the Marines in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the Marine Corps. "Everyone was out doing something. Women helping the Red Cross or even in churches, they were knitting things," Cole said. "So ...