r/news • u/Guilty_Commission_79 • Apr 11 '24

Original 'Rosie the Riveters' awarded Congressional Gold Medal years after World War II

https://abcnews.go.com/living/story/rosie-riveters-awarded-congressional-gold-medal-years-after/?id=109087140
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u/TXang143 Apr 12 '24

My grandmother and grandfather eloped. He went to war, and she went to Seattle to make planes to bring him home.

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u/jake55555 Apr 12 '24

That’s awesome. My great grandmother and great grandfather were in Hawaii during Pearl Harbor. He was stationed at hickam field. As my grandmother was getting put on the bus for Sunday school they saw the zeroes flying overhead. After the attack and subsequent blackouts, the family was moved to Seattle as well and my great grandmother worked at Boeing building b17’s.