Agreed. I am related through several “layers” to the Willow Run facility in MI. My grandfather (WWII), father (Korea) and past employer have real history in SE-MI manufacturing extending into the automotive industry, post 1945.
I also was employed (for a time and long after the war) by the same factory that produced the Mg-Al engine block that flew out of W.R. in WWII. They (our workers) embraced their history. They are now gone and shuttered; Bohn Brass & Metalworks.
Although I was born in 1958, I enjoy maintaining the history of SE-MI in my family.
While my Dad was over in England with the B-17s and the 8th Air Force my Mom was at Willow Run riveting wing panels on B-24 Liberators.