Rose Witherspoon Spence recalls how WW II changed the lives of women.

"It was new in our psyche.  Because men were trained to be men, and women were trained to do what men said.  And the war brought out, for women, the ability to dictate how they would accept change.  Once a woman learned that she can command a group of women on a military base, it was no question that once she became a civilian, she could run a university.  She could run an office.  She could manage a church.  She could run the household, and those experiences changed society."

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