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Abe
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since 2003-05-28
Posts 694
Looks like Vero Beach, FL until the end!

0 posted 2005-06-07 12:31 PM



Rosie, The Riveter



During World War Two

All around this Nation

Women took up the Battle

Beyond all imagination.



Over six million of them

Traded aprons for coveralls

And answered like true Patriots

When their Country calls.



They worked in every industry

To build the tools of War

From guns and tanks and planes

To ships and so much more.



A key part of our Defense

To free the Men so they could fight

Showing they could do it all

They worked the plants day and night.



Could we have won without them?

Some say it would have been tough

And we never gave them credit

Or at the least, not near enough.



So many years have passed by

With so many changes in our life

Thanks to what all those Ladies did

Who were Sister, Mother, Friend or Wife.



Del "Abe" Jones
Mankind's greatest accomplishment is not the revolution of technology, it is the evolution of creativity.

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Enchantress
Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113
Canada eh.
1 posted 2005-06-07 12:40 PM


You know Del, I am so pleased you posted this today.
Just last week I went to have a closer look at our Lancaster bomber
on display here, in a park.
The elderly gentleman/vet explained to the crowds
how all the rivets had been installed by women.
I tell ya..it made me smile with pride.
Thank you so much for this timely post.
~Hugs & Smiles, Nancy~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
dancing with you in the summer rain~

scorpio
Member Ascendant
since 2002-10-02
Posts 5178
right...there
2 posted 2005-06-07 04:37 PM


Well done.  And you are so right.  The role played by women in the war effort at home has near been fully appreciated.  I am pleased that you penned this tribute.

believe in what your heart feels...

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