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"Rosie" Erlinda Avila was a riveter building bombers during WWII. She says doing the work was freeing for women. A family member honors her legacy with a tattoo. “I’ve come to enlist,” she ...
Students in Pittsford had the unique opportunity to meet Mary Masciangelo, a real-life Rosie the Riveter, as she celebrated ...
John Yang has their story. Rosie the Riveter is known as a cultural icon that encouraged women to join the workforce during wartime. But the name is often associated with the 1942 “We Can Do It!” ...
Every Friday she can be found at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park Visitor Center in Richmond speaking to groups. “It’s kind of the most important thing in ...
Connie Palacioz is Wichita’s own “Rosie the Riveter,” for volunteering at the B-29 Doc hangar during the war. “When visitors come and they ask us, and then I tell them that I worked there ...
The event was put on by the Gary Sinise Foundation in partnership with the museum and Rosie the Riveter Trust. "During the (Second World) War, millions of women like you stepped into roles ...