By ZamboniIn a week that began with Hollywood's royalty collecting little golden statues, it's only fitting that we cats pause today to recognize a group that really earned the gold.
The Congressional Gold Medal, that is. Yep, we're talking WASPs.
About 200 surviving Women Air Force Service Pilots — brash old dames who flew in World War II but who had to wait for the Presidency of Jimmy Carter to get their rightful veteran status — were honored today on Capitol Hill. And we cats say, it's about frickin' time.
See, we were lucky enough to know a WASP. Like so many of her fellow pilots, Kaddy Landry Steele is no longer with us, and we cats miss her every day. But thankfully, four wonderful minutes of her are available here, on YouTube.
How Kaddy would have loved today's ceremony. But we happen to know, confidentially, that she was very well represented. We cats PURR.
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