Within the veteran community, there are over 1.8 million women.
Posted on 08/14/2015 6:49:44 PM PDT by null and void
Within the veteran community, there are over 1.8 million women.
Some of those women are part of a pro-military organization called Pin Ups For Vets:
Veterans
Pin Ups For Vets is a non-profit that produces WWII-style pinup calendars every year. Proceeds from the calendar help to support our hospitalized veterans and deployed troops.
The women who are part of Pin Ups For Vets even go to the VA hospitals to hand deliver them.
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
This year, their calendar features 12 female veterans.
Pin Up For Vets founder Gina Elise shared some of the images for the new calendar with IJReview.
U.S. Army veteran Cici:
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
U.S. Marine veteran Donna:
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
U.S. Marine veteran Chloe:
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
U.S. Marine veteran Jennifer:
Image Credit: Pin Ups For Vets
We wanted to know what compels these women to trade in their camouflage and rifle for 1940s Americana and high heels. U.S. Marine veteran Jovane Marie told us:
“Not only does it serve as a fundraising tool to ensure that we can complete our mission, and bring joy to our troops, veterans and supporters worldwide – it also shows the diversity of the veteran community and proves that women veterans can be both beautiful AND tough. We can go to war AND pose as pinups. We don’t have to choose – we can be both! And I think that is a very important message.”She then shared a personal detail about how the organization has helped save her life:
“My own life has been touched in such a personal way through my involvement. As I said, we are a family. What you don’t see are the heartfelt conversations we have amongst each other about our joys and our struggles, and how fiercely protective of each other we are. I was recently diagnosed with PTS (post-traumatic stress), and went through a period of depression.According to the founder, Pin Ups For Vets has individually visited over 7,000 ill and injured veterans at their bedside in 54 VA Hospitals, military hospitals & state veterans’ homes in 29 states.My fellow ambassadors rallied around me, sharing their own personal experiences and how they managed to overcome, and Gina called or texted me almost everyday to check on me, even when I wouldn’t pick up the phone for days at a time. I do not exaggerate when I say that the love and support of these women saved my life. I am so grateful to be a part of an organization where not only am I helping to improve others’ lives, but my own is enhanced as well.”
Talk about an innovative and heartfelt way to make a meaningful impact in the world.
This is adorable — ping! So great of these brave ladies to do this for other vets!
And they look pretty nice not trashy.
OUTSTANDING! Thanks for the ping; post. HOORAY ladies.
Active Duty/Vet/Retiree ping.
Man, I have always admired vintage styles. It’s a shame I have to endure people my age who dress like slobs. Who the heck goes out in pajamas and dirty hair? People of my generation. Hard to believe people used to have pride in their appearance.
ping
“Won’t you tell me dear, the size of your brassiere,
Twenty, thirty, forty?
“If it’s forty two, I will be with you,
Sunday, Monday, always!
;^)
That phrase is actuality written on one of the pictures of mom sitting under the apple tree in their back yard. She had a cute little dress on
I have all of their daily letters and pictures — Four years worth (SOUTH PACIFIC)
3 CHEERS FOR 8-15-1945
Miss them. Their song
Star Dust
Song by Hoagy Carmichael
Lyrics
And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we’re apart
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago, now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song
Like the vets in the calendars, she also contributed more to the war effort than the morale boost provided by her photo, thought the atom bomb made her frequency switching algorithm for torpedo guidance systems a moot point -= but we now use refinements of it in our cell phones.
Mind blown.
Classy,
How many sex symbols have (formerly) classified patents? Not many, but Hedy was one.
I think Noel Neil was way hooter than Betty Grable.
‘’Till I come marching home...’’
I loved it all.
I love the look of the gals during that period.
I would like to add ‘nose art’ our Airstream trailer.
My daughter, all 15 yrs old of her, is a fan of vintage styles. She did her hair and dressed up as Rosie the Riveted ... looked spot on beautiful :)
Well, we all know what Germany had in common with the U.S., Marlene Dietrich.
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