How did it feel to get the certificate of achievement as a Rosie the Riveter?
Oh, I was so proud and so were the other Rosies with me! There had to be maybe 150 or 200 of us that received that certificate. We had a band there that played patriotic songs, and we sang we had a good time, and we were all so proud. What kind of propaganda did you see during the war? There were posters of Japanese with terrible faces menacing, they were made to look terrible. The poster of Uncle Sam pointing “Uncle Sam wants you.” You would see “loose lips sink ships” and a ship sinking with the American flag on it. So, that was all propaganda. Was the propaganda effective? Yes, that would’ve been. The Uncle Sam poster I’m sure affected the young men, and they would go and join up. What did you worry most about during the war? Well, hoping that all of my cousins would come back safely. Did you know about the Holocaust at the time of WW II? Absolutely not. It was not known at all until the camps were opened and the people freed. We heard or knew nothing at all about it. Were any of yo
