Common Ground, Fall 2007
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A talk with Emily Yellin, author of Our Mothers’ War, with home front vets Betty Reid Soskin and Rosalie Pinto Moderated by Lucy Lawliss, Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park.

“Sometimes the din will seem to swell and engulf you like a treacherous wave,” says welder Augusta Clawson–quoted in Emily Yellin’s Our Mothers’ War–about working down in the hold of a ship.

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