NPS Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, who's retiring at age 100, illuminated stories of women from diverse backgrounds who joined the civilian WWII effort.
Her parents joined her maternal grandfather, who had resettled in the Bay Area city at the end of World War I.
In “Of Lost Conversations,” she reflects on her disappointment with an NPS film made about the World War II home-front effort in Richmond. “It would have been the equivalent of today’s young woman of color being the first in her family to enter college,” she said. According to her biography, Soskin gained national prominence when she was tapped in 2013 — as the oldest ranger — to speak about the government shutdown.
“To be a part of helping to mark the place where that dramatic trajectory of my own life, combined with others of my generation, will influence the future by the footprints we’ve left behind has been incredible,” Soskin said.
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