Political Quotes

“I would like to relate some of my memories of World War II. I was born in 1934. I was about 7, 8, 9 and 10. In our community what allowed Rosie the Riveter to go into the workforce and our factories was other women on the homefront, that substituted for taking care of children. So some of the women in our community went and babysat for other women to allow them to go into our factories to do some of this work. So I am pleased that one of the resolved clauses reads, "honors the extraordinary contributions of the women whose dedicated service on the homefront during World War II was instrumental in achieving the Allied victory." Those women that made the effort, that got in the physical conditioning to allow them, really unheard of before, to do man's work was also supplemented by so many mothers and so many other women in every home in most every community of the Nation. In our rural area of Michigan, women were the ones that were encouraging the savings of string and tinfoil and saving all of their bacon fat and encouraging their children to contribute to the war effort. So it was not only the work in the factories, but it was the inspiration that mothers and other women gave to their communities.”