Paul H. Wrote:
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> Dear Friends,
>
> My mother is getting a Congressional Gold Medal
> for her service
> in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during
> WWII. My
> mother wore Army boots (and flew P51 Mustangs) and
> I am very
> proud of it. Go see "Congressional Gold Medal for
> the Women
> Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of WWII, Jan. 29,
> 2010 at
>

Fantastic! Congratulations. May I suggest in the interest of preserving history that you get her story?
>
> "The WASP Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony will
> take
> place on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.
> in the
> U.S. Capitol"
>
> The picture of my mother, "Barbara Willis
> Heinrich, 43-W-4
> Classbook Photograph" is at either
> or
>
> My Aunt also was a WASP and she will be getting
> her own
> Gold Medal. Her picture, Betty Heinrich
> Berkstresser, 43-W-4
> Classbook Photograph is at or
>
> Her BFF, Marion Carlstrom Trick, 43-W-5,
> ( ) will also be there.
>
> My father wasn't allowed to enlist in the military
> because he
> was part of teams involved in creating aviation
> gasoline,
> synthetic rubber, and eventually high explosives
> for use in
> two different "implosion devices" during WWII.
>

Hmmmm....Let me look into my crystal ball and see if I can figure out where your father was. I see him somewhere in the New Mexico Desert, something about 'Trinity' and two gentlemen one named "Fat man" and the other "Little Boy".