Hundreds of elderly women who joined the U.S. workforce during the Second World War gathered in the U.S. Capitol to receive a Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the nation's top civilian award.
On Wednesday, hundreds of elderly women who joined the U.S. workforce during the Second World War gathered in the U.S. Capitol to receive a Congressional Gold Medal of Honor , the nation's top civilian award.Women who joined the U.S. workforce during the Second World War strike 'Rosie the Riveter' poses before a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
The Rosies, as they're known, stepped in and filled those roles, many at factories and shipyards that directly contributed to the war effort. Marian Sousa, 98, at the U.S. Capitol with politician Carl Bedell, whose mother, like Sousa, worked at the shipyards in Richmond, Calif., during the Second World War.
From there, she was hired straightaway to work at Shipyard No. 3 in Richmond, Calif., drafting and revising blueprints for troop transport ships. The other women in her family joined the workforce too. Her sisters both became welders, and her mother worked as a spray painter.She remembers the day she got to watch a ship, one of the products of her labour, launch from a basin at the shipyard.
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