"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/23/2016 at 16:15 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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During WWII, just over 1,000 women trained and flew with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), an organization whose primary mission was ferrying aircraft around the US to free up male pilots for combat. But their service—and sacrifice—was never formally recognized. They were not given veteran status until 1977, when President Carter signed the G.I. Bill Impro vement Act of 1977, which granted full military status for WASP pilots. Then, in 1984, each pilot was awarded the
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, many posthumously, and those pilots who served for more than one year also received the American Theater Ribbon/
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. However, in 2015, Army Secretary John McHugh revoked the privilege of WASP pilots to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, citing a lack of space. That decision was finally reversed yesterday when President Obama signed
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, which allows the cremated remains of WASPs to be interred once again at America’s most hallowed cemetery.
US Air Force photos
Cash Rewards
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2016 at 16:21 |
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Considering some bullshit I’m running into on the FP, glad to see this here. Thanks.
Jcarr
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2016 at 16:22 |
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Thanks, Obama....
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I mean; thanks, Obama?
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I mean; thanks, Obama!
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ttyymmnn
> Jcarr
05/23/2016 at 16:24 |
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I was going to use that as my headline, then lead with, “No, really!”
Ash78, voting early and often
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2016 at 16:30 |
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So much for America's supposed anti-WASP agenda!
NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2016 at 16:44 |
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This makes me wonder how many other of these little discriminations are still on the books and need to be addressed.
I mean, sheesh.
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ttyymmnn
> NotUnlessRoundIsFunny
05/23/2016 at 16:47 |
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Quite a few, I imagine.
Party-vi
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2016 at 17:03 |
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Good Guy Obama.
Rainbow
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2016 at 17:20 |
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If this got shared to the front page, how many people do you think would immediately try to turn it into a bad thing, simply because Obama did it? 10? 50? All of them?
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ttyymmnn
> Rainbow
05/23/2016 at 17:40 |
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They'd probably find a way to blame him for the 32 years between the end of the war and their initial recognition in 1977.
TheHondaBro
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2016 at 18:16 |
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You mean this wasn’t a thing for all this time?
Jesus fucking christ, how backwards is this country??
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ttyymmnn
> TheHondaBro
05/23/2016 at 18:33 |
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Politics and sexism, basically.
Much had changed in America [by 1977] since a powerful male pilots lobby shut down the WASP at the end of 1944. In the final months of its existence, the program was under constant attack in the media. “NOT CREATED BY CONGRESS” declared one headline. One writer quoted an unnamed source who predicted the imminent demise of the organization. “We’ll wake up one of these mornings,” the informant allegedly said, “to discover there are no more WASPS to sting the taxpayers and keep thoroughly experienced men out of flying jobs.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flyg…
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TheHondaBro
> ttyymmnn
05/23/2016 at 18:38 |
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Holy. Shit.
I want to move to Iran.
spanfucker retire bitch
> Rainbow
05/23/2016 at 18:50 |
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Dude, Fox and Friends this morning was literally attacking Obama because he named the Bison the Official MAMMAL of the United States. They - I shit you not - called it the “war against the bald eagle” without the slightest hint of satire.
You can’t make this crap up.
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Rainbow
> spanfucker retire bitch
05/23/2016 at 19:52 |
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I feel so bad for all the sane republicans out there. Sure, there are some crazy liberals... But nobody is half as embarrassing and blatantly stupid as Fox.