RIP Rosie the Riveter

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101230/ts_alt_afp/ushistorywwiifeminism "CHICAGO (AFP) – A Michigan factory worker used as the unwitting model for the wartime Rosie the Riveter poster whose inspirational "We Can Do It!" message became an icon of the feminist movement has died.

Geraldine Doyle died Sunday, a spokesman for the Hospice House of Mid Michigan told AFP. She was 86.

Doyle didn't realize she had a famous face until she was flipping through a magazine in 1982 and spotted a reproduction of the poster, her daughter told The New York Times."

Respectful condolences. How great to have such an interesting part in history!
 

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