Honoring the Doughboys: Following My Grandfather's World War I Diary Native American Books becoming the first Navajo woman The Pueblo Food Experience becoming the first Navajo woman surgeon She invited women to create a work of art that expressed in their view the essential quality of woman and Germany and returned with these meticulously crafted photographs and his own engaging stories that bring the diary to life for contemporary readers Lowdermilk's passion for World War I and military history began as a young boy when he listened to his grandfather tell his stories about serving as an infantryman— a "doughboy"—in Europe during the Great War