Ninety-seven House members have signed a bill to allow all WASP members to be inurned at Arlington and a bill has been sponsored in the Senate.
The WASPs flew more than 60 million miles domestically, test-flew and repaired military aircraft and ferried male officers around the country. They even towed targets during live-ammunition training.
Thirty-eight died while serving.
Congress finally granted them military and veteran status in 1977. In 1984, they each received a World War II Victory Medal and in 2010, they were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
It sure strikes me how long it took Congress to do this.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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