Goodbye Rosie......

[Freedom]

Karen, that was interesting! Thanks for sharing.

My mother was a Rosie, of sorts. She worked on the B52 bombers at the Willow Run airport, near Detroit, during the war.
My father was in the Philippines.

I never knew my mother, and my dad really didn't speak of the war, other than to say it was 'awful'.

Most of that generation never spoke of WW II. They came home and got on with life (well, most of them). My Dad never speaks of it either. When we attended the Tribute to WW II veterans back in August, this was mentioned during the presentations.

[cyber-sibes]

Karen, very interesting! My mom & her sisters worked in the knitting mills in Fall River back then - my mom's job was making the thread loops for the hooks on dresses, she showed us how to "knit" a strand of thread into a chain when we were kids. LOL, haven't thought about that for years, I'll bet I can still do it! She also tied those pretty bows on the finished dresses that were so popular back then.

I've always liked those Rosie ads, funny how she became an icon & didn't know it! She comes from wonderful generation of people that knew what it meant to band together for a cause. God bless them all.

[rosethecopycat]

Karen, that was interesting! Thanks for sharing.





Most of that generation never spoke of WW II. They came home and got on with life (well, most of them). My Dad never speaks of it either. When we attended the Tribute to WW II veterans back in August, this was mentioned during the presentations.

Thank your father for his service, from me.