Help A WASP Go To Washington

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On March 9 and 10, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) will be honored in several events in Washington, D.C., culminating with the award of the Congressional Gold Medal, and a veterans group in Texas is asking for donations to help pay the travel expenses of those who would like to attend but can't afford to. Of the 1,102 women who served during World War II, about 300 are still alive. At the D.C. ceremony, each of the WASP or her relative will receive a bronze copy of the medal, with the original gold copy going to the Smithsonian Institution. "These women pilots paid their own way to enter training, took up a collection to help pay for the expenses of burial when one of their peers was killed, and when they were disbanded in 1944, they had to pay their own way back home," says the Web site for The Heart of Texas Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America, which is taking the donations. "There were no honors, no benefits, and few thanks.This is America's opportunity to say 'Thank you' to the WASP."

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Rosstafari Daaaang. /X

This headline is gonna be hilarious to the 99.999% of the world who doesn't know the aviation meaning of WASP.

noid Curtis E. Carr Jawja

and the other .001% will still think of the other meaning first.

Rosstafari Daaaang. /X

...yeah. I did.