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Housing for the influx of defense workers was deemed of primary importance to the military, so the San Antonio Heights housing project was given a high priority rating by the Office of Emergency Management in Washington
After being curtailed the past two years because of the coronavirus pandemic, in-person Memorial Day observances were held throughout Los Angeles County Monday.
On this first Memorial Day after their deaths, the 13 service members killed when Afghanistan’s Kabul airport was bombed Aug. 26 are being honored.
In-person events are planned for Long Beach, Newhall and Westlake Village.
Betty Reid Soskin Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest park ranger with National Park Service and the author of Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life. Her remarkable life spans nearly ten decades and has included being an author, composer and singer, social and political activist, entrepreneur, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, historian, blogger, and public speaker. Betty was instrumental in the establishment of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California. She was later hired to work at the Rosie the Riveter Park, where...