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<p class="MsoNormal">This week we are seeing the <span style="color:#C00000">D-Day Commemoration about World War II</span>.
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">Troops from the UK, the US, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of northern France, on 6 June 1944. It was the largest military naval, air and land operation
ever attempted and marked the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-occupied north-west Europe. Most of the photos show men fighters, as at the ceremonies now in 2019, 75 years later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">We are WOMEN FOR PEACE, and seeing the losses in World War II stir our souls.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#C00000">BUT, as we look back to World War I, before our time, this period changed women’s lives in the workforce forever. Here are some of the memories……</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">AMERICAN WOMEN WERE SHEROES OF WORLD WAR I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/03/women-at-work-in-1917/518964/">https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/03/women-at-work-in-1917/518964/</a> - Alan Taylor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lyon Text"">Large numbers of women were involved in the war effort during World War I, volunteering, working as nurses or support, or working in traditionally male jobs back home. But
women were also making strides in 1917, assuming government roles (the first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress), marching for the right to vote, even risking jail to teach others about safe birth control methods.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Women railroad workers in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shops during World War I in Lorain, Ohio. May 14, 1917. Library of Congress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="864" height="591" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D489BB.31892C30" alt="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/photo/2017/03/iwd-2017-part-ii/w13_24446u/main_900.jpg?1488997289"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">USA – HOW WORLD WAR I CHANGED WOMEN’S LIVES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">VIDEO - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVaOoI2wN2w">
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVaOoI2wN2w</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Unprecedented job opportunities sparked demands for equal pay. In some wartime industries, women made up l/3 of the workforce.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Women started pushing for more equality in the workforce, which energized the women’s suffrage/vote movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Though women were not permitted in conflict service till 2013, they filled many non-combative roles in the US military during World War I.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The changes in women’s roles had a very positive impact on the Women’s Rights Movement of the early 20<sup>th</sup> century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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