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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: 5, Insightful) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday July 14 2020, @10:23PM
Oh did your feels get hurted? Of course the witch hunts the Republicans ran against HRC over Benghazi were just peachy, but don't do it to our side?
I listened to eight years of the right calling out Obama for ruling by fiat and golfing too much. Only to see the Orange Shit-stain break every record for both of those (In only THREE years!) plus massive abuses of power, Nepotism, lying even when the truth would serve him better, pardoning his accomplices, horrid response to COVID19 (remember, Obama was a failure because TWO people died of Ebola, so what does that make the Creamsicle Charlatan at 130,000 plus?), insulting everyone he doesn't like and then complaining that he isn't treated well (no shit dumbass!), being the biggest disseminator of fake news while calling legitimate reporting fake news... etc, etc, etc. while the right goes "yeah, own the libs even if it hurts me! Get rid of Obamacare (Romneycare actually) but save the ACA!" Wearing masks violates my right to infect others....and on and on.
And they have done a lot, ask Moscow Mitch how many bi-partisan bills he has stacked up he won't even allow a vote on.
The Republican party has always been the party of refusal, proven years ago by the pledge to make Obama a one term president and followed by their refusal to do anything good for this country unless you are a millionaire. ONLY the Republicans have ever pledged to no compromise regardless of if it was good for the country or not, ONLY the Republicans have ever signed a pledge from a political activist, Grover Norquist, who was a private citizen. So take away healthcare, screw the middle class some more. November is coming, and I have a hope and a feeling it's going to leave the right feeling very 'blue.'
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