For over 70 years, politicians from both parties have built their politics on this fake history. US troops are still in Germany, still in Japan more than two generations after the war, and the US maintains an empire of a thousand military bases on six continents and fleets in every ocean.
“New Pearl Harbors” are longed for by war makers, claimed, and exploited. Yet the original Pearl Harbor remains the most popular U.S. argument for all things military.
Donald Trump is tweeting about a particular spot in Hawaii. He visited it recently on his way to threaten war in Asia. It’s a big feature this week in lots of U.S. magazines and newspapers. It has a lovely name that sounds like murder and blood because Japanese airplanes engaged in large-scale murder there in 1941: Pearl
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Loraine Osborne is a Rosie. She isn’t THE Rosie, but she worked as a riveter at the Willow Run bomber plant in Michigan alongside Rose Will Monroe, the inspiration for a character that came to symbolize female empowerment and the we’re-all-in-this-together spirit of the American homefront during World War II. […]
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Loraine Osborne is a Rosie. She isn't THE Rosie, but she worked as a riveter at the Willow Run bomber plant in Michigan alongside Rose Will Monroe, the inspiration for a character that came to symbolize female empowerment and the we're-all-in-this-together spirit of the American homefront during World War
The Willow Run Bomber Plant is where worker “Rosie the Riveter” became an icon of American female empowerment and workers of different races and sexes worked side-by-side during WWII.
DETROIT (AP) — A group trying to save the Detroit-area factory where Rosie the Riveter became an icon of American female empowerment during World War II said Friday that it must raise $1.5 million in little more than a month to save the site from being demolished. Those behind the Save the Bomber Plant campaign said they have raised $6.5 million
