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Capitol and saw these pages and thought, wow, what a great opportunity this would be and saw they were all boys and was told, well, we just dont feel like this is the place for girls to operate. And i at that age between sixth and seventh grade said, well thats just not fair. He said, well, maybe we can do something about that. So when i went back to school in the fall, i wrote letters to mr. Albert. And wrote letters to mr. Albert and wrote letters to mr. Al berd for many years, and finally one day when i was just about to graduate from high school, i got a call from charlie ward, who was mr. Alberts administrative assistant, and he asked me how i would feel about being the first woman page. Well, needless to say, i was finally ecstatic about this. I said, well ill have to ask my parents first. He said, well, mr. Albert has already spoken the to your parents and its okay with them. And i said absolutely. So thats how it began. And by the latter 1970s. Its about half and half females, ....
Shes she accepted on behalf of all of them. The original metal was given to the smithsonian the Smithsonian Institute as a directed by the bill barack obama signed. The story of the wasps is one that even know they were granted veteran status, it is still a story not a lot of people are familiar with. They did not ask for all of this credit. They came to serve their country and did something when america needed them and came together and meant to fly overseas to help america when the war. When it was done, they packed up their bags and paid their own way home and left it at that. These women changed the face of americas military at a time when their country needed them and thats the story we are currently here telling at the bullock texas state history museum. All weekend long, American History tv is joining our ....