“The US military knew that letters from home were the single biggest morale booster, and a force with high morale fights better.” Sarah Sundin A postage stamp is the world’s smallest contract. When it is licked and affixed onto an envelope, there is an implied promise that nothing will deter…
“This kind of work, particularly in the early stages of a difficult cryptanalysis, is perhaps the most excruciating, exasperating, agonizing mental process known to man.” – David Kahn, The Codebreakers. A female code breaker and member of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) program operated a Naval Security…
thewordfortheday.tumblr.com “You can go to college. You can have a career. Study hard.” Those words from my mother still echo in my head. Good advice. But from a woman married to an alcoholic and poorer than a church mouse, the statistical possibility of her daughters graduating from college would…
“Women are like tea bags: You never know how strong they are until they’re in hot waters.” Eleanor Roosevelt The news that a senior citizen like myself needed to stay inside for protection from a virus left an unsettling feeling. What could I do with all the time? Day after…
“Without the aid of home front women warriors, maintaining the needs of the country and the military during the war would have been impossible.” – Sue Reich The Grannies Quilt The call for quilts to help in the war effort fell onto the ears of many on the home front…
“Women who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women. This was a peoples’ war, and everyone was in it.” – Olivia Culp Hobby, engraved on WWII Memorial in DC With pride, thousands of women signed up for military service after the bombing of Pearl…
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