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Original 'Rosie the Riveter' makes masks to fight COVID-19:
At age 94, Mae Krier is back on the front lines — hard at work, helping her country.
One of the nation's original "Rosie the Riveters" employed by Boeing in Seattle during World War II, she built B-17 and B-29 bombers to help support the war effort decades ago.
Now she's fighting a different war, as her still nimble fingers turn out face masks to prevent spread of the deadly coronavirus.
"People say to me, "You helped win WWII and now you are helping our country win this battle over this virus. These are nice things to hear," Krier said.
She makes the mask like the red polka dot bandanas she also makes to remind people of the Rosies, those women who toiled in manufacturing plants with their heads wrapped in bandanas so their hair wouldn't get tangled in the machinery they used to make supplies for the military serving overseas.
They were depicted by a World War II era poster of "Rosie the Riveter" created by J. Howard Miller in 1943.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday July 14 2020, @08:10PM (2 children)
I wish there was a way to identify you ACs. You're that same AC with short-circuited brain. Please get an appt. with a neurologist. Probably can't be fixed though, but worth a try.
Because we have lots of people from, oh say, India, Brazil, and Turkey.
We're known as the "world's melting pot". Idiot.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @07:00AM (1 child)
Brazil is pretty damn diverse. India has more large-scale cultures than the USA. Turkey has multiple "major cultures" living in mosaic instead of melting together.
The rest of the world considers the US "melting pot" to turn all folks into Americans within 0-2 generations, and considers "Americans" culturally homogenous, and not diverse at all. Of course that's a foolish opinion, ignoring Black culture and others, but that's no more valid than Turkey's mixed cultures.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday July 16 2020, @02:56PM
Nice attempt at disputing me, but face facts, you're just troll.
You're that same moron who has brain short-circuits. You take things I write (and I'm sure others too) out of context, then you troll on that thing that you imagined.
Sure, all of those countries are diverse. So what? Doesn't take away from what I wrote that you trolled. My point stands. Go do something constructive for a change.