• March 22, 2015

NIGHT STAY AT:WESTIN METRO AIRPORT MCNAMARA TERMINAL

WE DON’T LOOK TOO BAD FOR ONLY 3 HOURS OF SLEEP

CAN YOU SAY ADRENALIN HIGH??

DTWPRE – BOARDING

FOR THE “ROSIES” THE CHARTERED DELTA FLIGHT GOT A

HONOR WATER ARCH “SEND OFF” AT DETROIT METRO AIRPORT

DTWHONOR WATER ARCH

FLIGHT + BREAKFAST

FOR THE “ROSIES” THE CHARTERED DELTA FLIGHT GOT ANOTHER HONOR WATER ARCH “WELCOME” AT WASHINGTON DC AIRPORT

WASHINTON DC AIRPOTHONOR WATER ARCH

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DC

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DCGREETED BY: LOCAL “ROSIE” SUPPORTERS

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DCGREETED BY: MILITARY

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DCGREETED BY: CHILDREN & PATRIOTS

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DCGREETED BY: CHILDREN SALUTING & GIVING LETTERS TO

“ ROSIES”

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DCGREETED BY: CHORAL GROUP SINGING PATRIOTIC SONGS

ROSIES & PARTICIPANTS GETTING EMOTIONAL

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DCEMOTIONS RUNNING HIGH

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DC1st CLASS - BUS WITH POLICE ESCORT

LOOK AT THE CORSAGE GIVEN TO HER BY A

HANDSOME AIR FORCE OFFICER ……..

THOSE GUYS IN UNIFORMS

ARRIVAL IN WASHINGTON DCON BUS WITH POLICE ESCORT

LOOK AT THE HAND MADE QUILT WITH EMBROIDERY ( BEHIND CAROL’S HEAD) GIVEN TO MOM FOR HER SERVICE DURING THE WAR

VIEW OUT THE WINDOW - CHERRY BLOSSOMS62 degrees & BLOSSOMS AT THEIR PEAK

WASHINGTON DCCAPITOL HILL STAGING AREA

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S INTERVIEWDOROTHY SPEAKS WITH AUTHOR

WHO IS WRITING A BOOK ABOUT WWII

WASHINGTON DC - CAPITOL HILL PRE-PHOTOSHOOT DEBBIE DINGELL

WASHINGTON DC

CAPITOL HILL STAGING AREA

WASHINGTON DC - CAPITOL HILL SHAKING HANDS WITH DEBBIE DINGELL

WASHINGTON DC - CAPITOL HILL ROSIES WITH ELECTED OFFICALS

DOROTHY

“ROSIE”

WASHINGTON DC - CAPITOL HILL ROSIES WITH ELECTED OFFICALS

DOROTHY

“ROSIE”

WASHINGTON DC - CAPITOL HILL DOROTHY “ROSIE”

WASHINGTON DC –LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - LUNCHEON

WASHINGTON DC –LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - MADISON

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS – LUNCHEONCANDICE MILLER / DEBBIE DINGELL - CO CHAIRS

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS – LUNCHEONSALMON / POTATOES / CARROTS / CHEESECAKE

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS – LUNCHEON

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS – LUNCHEONDETROIT FRESS PRESS INTERVIEW WITH TODD SPANGLER

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS – LUNCHEONINTERVIEWS WITH : SANDER LEVIN, MARIE OSBORNE WJR + MANY MORE

LUNCHEON SURPRISE –WADE BROWN’S GREAT NEPHEW – DAVID COFFIELD

HE IS A LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT

ROSIE POSTERSAUTOGRAPH SIGNING EVENT

MAY I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH ?????

WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL -HONOR GUARD RECEPTION / FORMATION

WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL -ROSIE THE RIVETER PLAQUE

WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL -MICHIGAN MEMORIAL

WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN + KILROY

WOMEN IN THE MILITARY MUSEUMEXTERIOR

WOMEN IN THE MILITARY MUSEUMINTERIOR

ARLINGTON CEMETERY

ARLINGTON CEMETERY CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

FARWELL AT WASHINGTON DC AIRPORTLOCALS GETTING INTO THE ERA + SWING DANCING

RETURN HOME & MAIL CALLRECEIVE MAIL FROM FAMILY, FRIENDS & LOCALS PROUD OF OUR ROSIES

THANK YOU TO ALL THAT SENT

CONGRATULATIONS / WELL WISHES

DETROIT WELCOME FOR ROSIESINVITATION

DETROIT ARRIVAL HONOR GUARDS & “ROSIE SUPPORTERS

DETROIT ARRIVAL HONOR GUARDS, “ROSIE SUPPORTERS & “ROSIES” BLOWN AWAY +

WELCOME HOME BANNER MADE BY MARTY & KAREN

D O R O T H Y

DETROIT AIRPORT DEPARTURE SUSAN & LYNNE CONTINUE THEIR HONOR GUARD PROCESSION BACK TO OAKMONT

OAKMONT HAD THIS POSTER IN THE LOBBY AWAITING HER ARRIVAL

WELCOME HOME MOM!!!

Hope you enjoyed your Day

Love Carol

And We Did IT!!!

DOROTHY WELCOME HOME OAKMONT SIGN ON APARTMENT DOOR

I’m an original “Rosie the Riveter”DOROTHY KORDICH

DOROTHY WELCOME HOME OAKMONT SIGN ON WALKER

DOROTHY MEDIA DARING FREE PRESS & FOX 2 TELEVISION NEWS

'Original Rosies' honored in WashingtonTODD SPANGLER, DETROIT FREE PRESS 7:03 P.M. EDT MARCH 22, 2016

WASHINGTON — Seventy-some years later, 91-year-old Frances Reeck has no trouble remembering what she —- and her four sisters — did during World War II.She worked in the aft fuselage of B-24 bombers being made at the massive Willow Run plant, spending eight hours a day brushing water on oxygen tanks to make sure there were no leaks. As for her sisters: One worked in an office, another in the tool room, a third as a riveter and the fourth as a bucker, a job that called for shaping the end of rivets as they were shot into place.They didn't feel like they were doing anything particularly special, said Reeck of Adrian. It was just that everyone "was behind the war effort."On Tuesday, Reeck and 30 other of the Original Rosies from Michigan who worked in the armaments industry during World War II — characterized by the famous Rosie the Riveter effort to bring women into the plants at a time when they were desperately needed — were feted in the nation's capital, being greeted with cheers and flowers as they landed at Reagan National Airport."None of us would be where we are today — the women — without what you did for us," said U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn, who helped arrange the Honor Flight, as well as a luncheon at the Library of Congress, a photo on the Capitol steps and a visit to the World War II Memorial for the women — all of whom are in their 80s and 90s now.

DOROTHY MEDIA DARING FREE PRESS

"It's our honor to have you here," added U.S. Rep. Candice Miller, R-Harrison Township, who played a key role coordinating the trip as well, along with Ford, the Yankee Air Museum and Talons Out Honor Flight, which arranges free-of-charge flights for Michigan veterans to visit the WWII memorial. "We just cannot thank you enough.""This is awesome, this is unbelievable," said a beaming Dorothy Kordich, a Clinton Township woman decked out in red, white and blue who will turn 100 years old in May. During the war years of 1941-45, she worked at the Fleetwood Fisher Body plant on Fort Street in Detroit inspecting parts for B-29 bombers.Tuesday's celebration grew out of a successful effort last year to win back for Willow Run the Guinness World Record for the most people dressed as Rosie the Riveter gathered in the same place since WWII, after being supplanted by a site in California

FORMER ROSIES, ON THE CAPITOL GROUNDS, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016 IN WASHINGTON DC

. The Michigan effort took back the prize with 2,096 Rosies.But Dingell, Miller and others wanted to do something more for the group of remaining Original Rosies, noting they had never had an Honor Flight to Washington. Ford — which originally built the mile-long assembly line at Willow Run that at its peak assembled a B-24 bomber every hour —provided key support for the effort.During the war, Willow Run employed as many as 42,000 people — as many as a third of them women. It was a time when few women did factory work. But with a shortage of men available during the war, the government started a campaign to attract women into the plants.Kordich's husband was in the Army Air Corps during the war."It felt like I was helping him," she said. "I was just proud to be doing it."

• "It was just something you did," said Lee Detrich, a 91-year-old from South Lyon who went to work as a riveter assembling parts for bombers at Willow Run straight out of graduating high school in Chicago. Asked if she thought she was making history by entering the manufacturing workforce at the time, she shrugged.

• "I don't think I ever really felt that way," she said. "I was doing what needed to be done."

• Detrich would go on to become an Arthur Murray dance instructor and a mother of seven. Asked how it was to work in Willow Run, she had one answer: "Noisy."

• Dorothy Norton, 91, of Ypsilanti, remembers working as an 18-year-old secretary to the War Manpower Commission, which was charged with bringing workers into Willow Run for the war effort. Male workers would come from other parts of the country, she said, many of whom couldn't read or write. She'd be tasked with making sure to ask them their names and that they matched employment sheets. Then she'd get an "X" for a signature.

• As for Tuesday's honor flight and events, she said it was "just amazing."

• With the luncheon at the Library of Congress' Montpelier Room getting underway, members of the Michigan delegation to Congress circulated through the crowd, shaking hands and introducing themselves. A line of wheelchairs for several of the honored guests lined the back wall of the dining room.

• "They're all fabulous," said Dingell, who had donned Rosie's red-and-white polka dot bandana and blue button-up shirt in the past for the Guinness Book effort. "Each of them is spunky and has their own stories. They're hysterical, and they're real."

• More than that, she said, they helped take the first steps that opened the workplace to women for good.

• "It’s a great celebration of history and the women who went before us," Dingell said.

DOROTHY MEDIA DARING FOX 2 TELEVISION NEWS

DOROTHY MEDIA DARING DEBBIE DINGELL - FOX 2 TELEVISION NEWS

ALMOST MEDIA DARINGS Glamour Magazine was looking for grandchildren or great

grand children to interview ( a generational exposé )

THEY WERE LOOKING FOR FEMALES BETWEEN18-30 YEARS OLD…..

REALLY???????

I GUESS THE STAFF MUST OF FAILED MATH

BUT THEY ARE STILL OUR DARINGS

THANK YOU !!!!!! FORD MOTOR COMPANY , TALONS OUT HORNOR FLIGHT &

YANKEE AIR MUSEUM FOR SPONSORING & ORGANIZING THIS AMAZING EVENT