The Return of Rosie the Riveter
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wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 11:42 last edited by
This is a great story.
Headline: One of the original 'Rosie the Riveters' is now making masks to help defeat coronavirus
"One of the original "Rosie the Riveters" is serving her country once more.
Mae Krier, 94, worked in a Boeing factory during World War II, where she helped make warplanes. Now, she's helping fight a different battle -- coronavirus.Rosie the Riveter is famously depicted wearing a red polka dot bandanna around her head, but now, Krier is stitching face masks from the same cloth.
"People are starting to send me material and elastic and everything that I need from all over the country," she said, wearing one of the bandanas around her neck. "It's absolutely amazing. I'm just stunned."
For the rest: https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_0bc83d84a2c22417c7a7947c89105f1e
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wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 12:00 last edited by
Great story!
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wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 13:26 last edited by
I bought a "Rosie the Riveter" T-shirt last year at the WW2 museum in New Orleans for my daughter. It's one of her favorite T-shirts; she wears it once every week.
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I bought a "Rosie the Riveter" T-shirt last year at the WW2 museum in New Orleans for my daughter. It's one of her favorite T-shirts; she wears it once every week.
wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 13:39 last edited by@Klaus said in The Return of Rosie the Riveter:
I bought a "Rosie the Riveter" T-shirt last year at the WW2 museum in New Orleans
Thoughts on the museum?
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wrote on 22 Jul 2020, 13:45 last edited by Klaus
@George-K said in The Return of Rosie the Riveter:
Thoughts on the museum?
It was quite instructive. Well worth the time. I was impressed by its symmetric presentation of the war into an "Atlantic" and a "Pacific" part, the latter of which is typically only glossed over over here. I was also impressed by how it also elaborated on the less glorious aspects of the American participation in WW2. It felt like information, not like propaganda. On the other hand, the museum didn't say much about those parts of WW2 that the US wasn't involved in (such as most of the war between Germany and Russia), but it's not really an objection because most visitors are presumably more interested in the part of WW2 that involved the us. But one conclusion I drew after visiting the museum is that one should visit multiple museums in different countries on the same topic to get something that resembles the truth.