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Decades After Their Service, ‘Rosie The Riveters’ Honored With Congressional Gold Medal

Published Thursday, April 11, 2024
by Labor News Story Link To CBS News
Decades After Their Service, ‘Rosie The Riveters’ Honored With Congressional Gold Medal

Michelle Miller and Kerry Breen at CBS News report a long-overdue Congressional Gold Medal has been presented to the women who worked in factories during World War II and inspired Rosie the Riveter.  The youngest Workers who were honored are in their 80s.  Some are a century old.  Of the millions of Women who performed exceptional service during the war, just dozens have survived long enough to see their work recognized with one of the Nation's highest honors.  One of those Women is Susan King, who at the age of 99 is still wielding a rivet gun like she did when building war planes in Baltimore's Eastern Aircraft Factory.  King was 18 when she first started at the factory.  She was one of 20 million Workers who were credentialed as Defense Workers and hired to fill the jobs that Men left behind once they were drafted into war

To Directly Access This Labor News Story In Its Entirety, Go To: Decades after their service, "Rosie the Riveters" to be honored with Congressional Gold Medal - CBS News

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My late Aunt's Rita Paul Cole and Marie Paul Kobrock - aka Dolly, were Rosie's at the Niagara Falls/Bell Aircraft Assembly Plant during WWII. They assembled the B-29 bomber. Dolly got her nickname for being so small and she fit perfectly - tight inside quarters, as the Buck Riveter. Rita was adept at handling the rivet gun, crushing the rivet to Dolly's buck. The rest is history. Posted by Ken Glennon on April 18, 2024 at 8:57 pm

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