Model for Norman Rockwell’s "Rosie the Riveter" dies at 92

[WilliamPitt]

You know Mary Doyle Keefe, but maybe not by that name. In 1943, the then-19-year-old telephone operator had been called upon to provide a unique kind of service during the war effort: Become the face of dedicated patriotism from the home front.

Norman Rockwell painted Keefe as “Rosie the Riveter,” an image that graced an iconic Saturday Evening Post cover and “became a symbol for millions of American women who went to work during World War II,” according to the Norman Rockwell Museum.

Keefe, 92, died in Connecticut this week after a brief illness, her family told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

The rest: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/04/22/rosie-the-riveter-model-dies-at-92/

[LordGlenconner]

1. Someone who contributed to the MIC should not be honored

[gladium et scutum]

4. Even when

the cause was the destruction of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan?

[LordGlenconner]

6. Did you miss the sarcasm tag?

I guess you did.

[WilliamPitt]

2. Up

[cwydro]

3. K and r

[Tom_Foolery]

5. RIP...