Ep. 199 - Learning about the Six Triple Eight with Beverly VanTull and Elizabeth Anne Helm-Frazier

Learning about the history of the Six Triple Eight with Beverly VanTull and Elizabeth Anne Helm-Frazier

Contact your member of Congress and ask them to co-sponsor H.R.1012, The Six Triple Eight Congressional Gold Medal.

H.R.1012 117th Congress (2021 2022): To award a Congressional Gold Medal to the members of the Women's Army Corps who were assigned to the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the "Six Triple Eight".

Episode Transcript

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You know all good? Good?Well, how are you, Darbio,
I'm good, man, I'm good. A lot of stuff going on,
man, how about yourself? Well, I'm outstanding. Congratulations on your your
new studio there with FCB. Thankyou, but almost well well, congratulations
anyway, and I appreciate all thework that you're doing. And congratulations on

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your your record labeled as well.That seems to be doing quite well.
Thank you, sir, Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. More
more news to come on that andon a later date. Absolutely, ladies
and gentlemen, we have with ustoday a very very very special show for
you. But let me start byintroducing Beverly Van Tahl, who's the program

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manager for the Virginia Women's Veterans Program. And I met Beverly on a social
media app and I heard the storythat she's going to be presenting with us
here today and I called Darvo andsaid that we absolutely have to have Beverly
on our show to talk about thisevent, which I'm just speechless, and

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I'm hoping that we will have acall to action for our listeners so that
they could support this endeavor. Andwithout with that, I want to introduce
Beverly Vantall, program manager for Virginiafor Virginia Women Veterans Program. Beverly,
thank you so much for being onthe Todd Aland Show. Thank you,
thank you so much Todd and Darvofor having me on the call. This

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is just amazing to me how justsocial media connects us no matter where we
are in the world. I tellyou, as you were mentioning, I'm
not very much of a social mediaguru, so it was amazing that we
connected. Um. I was sharing, trying to get the word out because

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here in Virginia, we're so excitedto support the over one hundred and eight
thousand women veterans we have living here, and I was just trying to find
more innovative and more um creative waysto reach out and kind of go outside
the box because you know, beinga proud Army veteran that I am who
we're taught to, you know,utilize our skill sets. Can't believe I'll

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let you get that off. Ican't believe I'll let you get that off.
I was. I was trying tofigure out getting there before I got
slacked down. Yeah, so UMto to find ways to just reach out
and reach beyond our borders of notonly Virginia because we had a lot of

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women veterans and a lot of nonprofitshere UM that we're having issues during um
COVID and really engaging to continue tosupport our women veterans and get the word
out. So when we were ableto connect on that platform, I was
just pouring my heart out because thereis just a phenomenal gap in being able

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to recognize the service of veterans overall. But when you think about you know,
women veterans, or when you thinkabout a veteran, I found that
a lot of our brothers and armsreally in our community are thought of more
than we are. And we've beenalongside since the Revolutionary War. And so

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when there was an opportunity to learnmore and find out about some of my
World War two, you know,founding members that that were here in Virginia's
still yet serving, you know,and surviving, it was just amazing to
be able to share the story andencourage people to learn more about it.
Also, after I was educated bythe phenomenal Liz that we have here with

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us today. Listen, So beforewe introduce our guests that he is here
with you, let's talk about whatis happening in June twelfth. So June
twelfth, thank you for that.June twelfth is the seventy third anniversary of
the Women's Armed Services Integration Act.In nineteen forty eight, President Harry Truman

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signed into law the ability for womento not only serve part time or just
on call, but to be regular, permanent members of the Army, the
Navy, the Air Force, Marines, and the Coast Guard. From that
point forward, up until nineteen fortyeight, women veterans were just on call

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volunteers. There was the auxiliary coolbut June twelfth, we became official where
we were able to get access tobenefits, retirement rights. There were a
lot of things that as women whoserved, we weren't able to have access
to until June twelfth, nineteen fortyeight. So this Saturday is the seventy
third anniversary celebration, And so Iencourage anyone who doesn't have a high speed,

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bright, you know, way toshow off, you know, I
love my brothers in arms taught mehow to do that. So I'm just
gonna go ahead and down this realquick for you. She's putting on an
Army veteran hat and it's pink andcolor by the way, So just for
her listeners, but thank you foryour service, and also thank your guest,

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Elizabeth An Helm Frasier, for forher service as well. So with
that, why don't we introduced ElizabethAn Hilm Frasier and you can and we
can talk about one of the projectsthat you were working on with. So
I am just excited that we haveElizabeth Helen Frasier with us today. She

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was the phenomenal mentor that shared withme the information about the six Triple eight
and also information about the military Women'sand memorial ambassadorship. So without further ado,
Liz, please share a little bitmore about yourself and about the great

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work that you're doing. Okay,well, thank you, Thank you guys
so much for inviting me and havingme on. I will have to put
my glasses on to read, becauseyou know I'm almost sixty, so you
know I got reading glasses only forreading them. Still, you'll see me
take you'll see me take the glassesoff. So but again, I want

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to just say thank you so much, Beverly for not only what you're doing
for the six Triple eight Project,but what you do for women veterans there
in Virginia, which spills right overinto all women veterans. So thank you
so much, and thank you guysfor inviting me on your program. I

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love seeing black men getting out therehelping the black sisters. So thank you
guys so much. I've got nothingbut loved for you. So my name
is Elizabeth town Fraser. I amthe oldest of five children. I am
from Largo, Florida. So ifyou're from Largo, Florida or that Tampa

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Saint Pete area, it's your homegirl. I grew up in the community
of rich Crest. Very proud tobe a rich Crest kid. I went
in the Army at age twenty andI stayed twenty five years, ten months
in twenty six days and had areally truly fantastic career. I really did.

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And then when I retired, Iwent to work for the Department of
Veteran Affairs, which is where I'mat now. In working for the Department
of Veteran Affairs, I always thinkthat I'm a veteran working for an agency
that's working for me, so I'mkind of like employed self employed. Okay,

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it was January of twenty eighteen whensomeone handed me a poster and the
poster had this picture on it.I'm gonna move out away. Well we're
on radio, so we can't seethe picture. Oh well, okay,
Well anyway, it's a poacher ofsome black women. Information that helped raise

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funds to build a monument. Thatunit was a six Triple eight Central Postal
Directory Battalion, the only all blackfemale unit to deploy to Europe in World
War Two. Now let me saythis. There were other black women serving

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in Europe during World War Two.There were the black nurses. There were
black women in a band. Therewere black women serving over in World War
Two in the European theater. Whatis unique about the six Triple eight is
this was a all black female unit. Top to bottom, highest ranking officer

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down to the lowest rankings enlisted wasall black. It was eight hundred and
fifty five of them. And thisunit deployed together. That's the key.
They deployed together overseas, going toBirmingham, England to do one single thing,

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and that was to reduce the backlogof mail letters, packages that had
built up in the European theater overa period of two years of more and
as I say to people, Beverly, can can really verify this any person
in the military are there are threemost important things that military people think about.

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Okay, getting paid, food andshelter, Okay, and mail.
Because I was in the Army.When I was in the Army, there
was no Facebook, Twitter, cellphones, they were none of that.
You relied on letters to keep youconnected. So go to World War two

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when all they had was letters andletters. Mail kept you connected, bad
or good news from home, itwas it was mail. And so the
morale was really low because service memberswas not getting mailed and This unit was
tasked to go to Europe and reducethe backlog, redibrect the mail, get

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it sent out. That that wastheir task. And remember this is World
War two, what was going onin our country at the time. Okay,
so the army, not given muchcredit to black people or even not

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given any credit to black women,gave them six months and this unit completed
that mission in three months. Andthis was this was a daunting task.
This this was not just some lettersand some and some boxes laying around.

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The mail had not been delivered inover two years. It was warehouses full
of mail from ceiling to floor,and they delivered it in ninety days.
They were given six months, butthey did it in ninety days. They
were given the order to redirect themail and get it out to the unit

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and get it out so that peoplecould come and pick the mail up,
kind of like how a postal distributioncenter is now. The mail comes in
there, they redirected, find outwho's who's where, and then they get
it to your local post offices.Okay, so again this was a daunting

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task. Yeah, this unit,whose commander was at the time major charity
Adams. Now, what is sounique about her is not only the fact
that she she's a black woman.She was one of the first African American

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women to graduate from the Officer's CandidateSchool out at Fort Dumone, Iowa.
Okay, very dynamic. She wasborn in Columbia, South Carolina, and
then she made her home in Dayton, Ohio. Her daughter still her daughter

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still lives in Ohio, and herson actually lives here with me in well,
not in my house, but inPrince Georgie's County, Maryland. I
live in Maryland and he lives downnear Upper Marlborough, Maryland, and his
name is Stanley. Sounds like herdaughter might not be too far from me,

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DARBYO. Yeah, yeah, nottoo far at all. I know
exactly where shout out to a helloOhio. Oh yeah, that's actually an
amazing, amazing story. And we'regonna we're gonna be going to commercial break

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Network. Welcome back, folks,you're listening to the Todd Allen Show.
We're in studio talking about the sixTriple, A one of the most amazing
stories of women veterans that you havenever heard. And so we're going to
continue on with Elizabeth and Helm Frasier. But first a Darvo. You have
a question, Yes, yes,and I have a question from miss Frasier.

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I know we're living in a timenow where there's being there's been a
re examination of Black history and storiesthat we weren't made aware of Ford and
stuff like that. But I thinkone thing that we don't hear enough about
is a re examination of black historywhen it comes to African Americans, specifically
in the military, and so myquestion is just one of curiosity to me,

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like when in this from Miss Frasier, when did you become aware of
the six Triple Eight And how didyou feel when you first became aware of
the story? Okay, God,thank you for that that question, and
that that's actually a very interesting questionbecause when I was in the Army,

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I would always see a photo advertisementor for Black History Month of this woman
inspecting some black women, and Isaid, well, I want to be
in that unit because those women alllook like me. So where is that
unit at? And I must havesaid that for like ten years, and

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nobody knew, nobody knew. Itwasn't until I learned the death of that
lady, who at the time wasMajor Charity Etna Adams. She was the
commander of the six Triple Eight.She died in two thousand and three,

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right, And when I was shownthe picture, I was like, Oh,
that's the unit, that's what theywas like, well, you know
that's a World War two union,Okay, And that's a that's a unit
that was in World War Two.But that was about it. Nobody else
knew anything else. And when Ilearned about the death of Major Adams Early.

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Because she got married, her lastname became Adams Early. She had
she had written a book, andthe name of the book is One Woman's
Army, and it is actually heardby biography, and it is there in
this book, in the book thatI learned about the six Triple A.

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Now, this was two thousand andthree, Okay, there was still not
a lot of stuff going on.But when I would see the picture,
then I knew the story. Iknew the story behind the unit. That
it was a World War two unit, and that their mission was mail.
Wow, and that is how Ibegan to learn about the unit. Wow.

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Let's let's talk about Major Adams.We mentioned in the last segment that
she was the commander of the sixTriple A and that she was an officer.
But but having gone through the screeningand evaluation process with Uncle Sam's Muscle
Club, I also recognize that inorder to be an officer, you have

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to first have to have an undergraduatedegree. So let's talk about Major adams
education and how she became the commanderof the six tripl if we would be
so kind. Okay, Well,she's an amazing person. One of the
quotes that Stanley Adams. I meanStanley Early. Her son says about his

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mother is she would say, ifI'm given the just, given the opportunity,
I can do my very best,and that always resonates with me.
Charity. Edna Adams was born inNorth Carolina, grew up in Columbia,

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South Carolina. She was her highschool Valle Victorian. She went on to
get a Bachelors of Science and Mathematicsin Latin in physics at Wilbeford that's right,
Ohio History History. And then shewent and got a Masters of Science

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in vocational psychology from Ohio State.Wow. When she u she when when
she got ready to go into themilitary. Go into the military. She
was one of the first African Americanwomen to become an officer after she completed

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officer training school out at Fort Fortdemon, Iowa. Wow. Okay,
Major Adams as that's what she was. Then she commanded the only battalion,
and a battalion had at this particularbattalion had eight hundred and fifty five black
women in it, and she wasthe only black woman to go and and

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become the commander of this battalion toserve in World War Two. Wow.
Colonel Early. Well, Major MajorAdams had to play in a club as
the White Boy Club, because let'sface it, this was World War two

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and there is a one of hermost famous quotes. Even if people don't
notice the unit or notice know aboutthe story, they know this story.
When Major Adams her unit was gettinginto Birmingham, they were trying to set

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up the unit work three shifts,so you had one shift working the mail,
you had one shift sleeping, andyou had one shift doing army stuff
because it was a unit, itwas an army unit. And this general
comes down and says, oh,I want to see all your twos.
Well, she was like, sir, I can't get you all of them,

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because I've got one shift is sleeping, one shift is working the mail,
and I can get you the shiftthat's here in the battalion doing things
doing army duties. Well no,and he and this is a general and
he said, I'm going to senda white first lieutenant down here to show
you how to run your unit.Now he told that to a black woman,

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okay, And Major adams response waslegendary. She said, over my
dead body, sir, okay.And she gave him that look everybody know

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what that look is with a blackis absolutely right. She s in my
ground, okay. And she wasnot gonna let anybody, let alone the
first lieutenant come down here and takeover her unit. It just wasn't gonna
happen. But she later then saidwhen it was all over, when the

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general came back and said, youknow, you did a pretty good job,
you know, And so she hadto she had to go through a
lot. She did not let theladies in her unit use a a Red
Cross um recreation facility because it wassegregated. And she was like, oh

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no, if they don't have thesame rights as anybody any other service member,
they are not gonna come to theRed Cross. And they did not
come, okay. And in nineteennineteen forty five December, Major Charity Adams
was promoted to lieutenant colonel and atthe end of World War Two, she

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was the highest ranking black female officer. Wow, okay, that's a that's
a fantastic story. That is afantastic story. One of the things that
Beverley, you and I talked aboutis the symbol of the six Triple eight,

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and that is a very famous symbolthat we've seen but we don't know
the history behind it. Let's talkabout the symbol and and uh, miss
miss Frasier, if you could helpwith that as well, let's talk about
the symbol of the unit. Absolutely, So back in that time frame when
the Women's Army Corps or the Auxiliary, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was started,

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all the all of the army unitshad a symbol that um they rallied
around, and for our Women's ArmyCorps they chose the palace a thing.
So it's a Greek goddess um uhand she's associated with being Um, the
god of wool actually, and Iknow there's the male side of the eries,

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but she was Roman and Greek goddesswith impressive variety of womanly virtues.
She was the goddess of handicrafts,industry, peace and the arts, of
war, storms and of battle,victory and prosperity. So they thought that
that would be the perfect symbol toutilize to rally women in the services,

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to be able to show that eventhough they are formidable, they still are
very impressive as women in this space. So it was amazing that they use
and it's to this day. It'sactually one of the historical legacy honors in

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front of the Army Women's Museum herein Fort Lee. It was relocated from
Fort McClellan and here in Jena atFort Lee. And that is one of
the um statues that greet you onthe way into the museum, a full
uh full life size statue of PallasAthene. So that is for the veteran,

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the women's veterans, correct, that'snot just specifically for the six Triple
eight. What was the symbol forthe six Triple eight or do we know?
Well, they they they had aunit patch you're talking about. Okay,
yeah, yeah, okay, theyhad they had a unit patch and
I have it somewhere. But theyalso used because first, first in in

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May of nineteen forty one, therewas a US representative named Edith Nors Rogers
and she was actually from Massachusetts andshe actually introduced a bill to create to
create the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.That's what it first started out as the

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Women's Army Exhilarated Corps. But theexhilaration, the exhilaration part of that meant
women could not go overseas. Okay, women could not go overseas, and
so in nineteen In May of nineteenforty two, President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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created the Women's Army Auxiliary Cord,the w A a C. That's what
it was called, and it waspublic Law seventy seven Dash five five four.
His wife, first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and doctor Mary McLeod Bethrone,

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a prominent civil rights leader. She'sfrom Florida. She was a presidential advisor.
She was an advocate for African Americanwomen to join the WAAC, both
as enlisted and officers. And itwas those two women, and you put
those two women together, you're talkingabout a powerhouse that they created. They

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campaigned. Eleanor Roosevelt talked to herhusband because men were going and let's face,
we were losing our men. Thenbecause we were fighting a two front
Rock war, people could get thatwe were fighting a war in in Europe
and we were fighting getting ready tofight a war in the Pacific. Yeah.

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And then this newly created WAAC wentout and set up this basic training
program at Fort Dmon, Iowa.And this program was gonna be four to
six weeks specializing in training officers andenlist stay and their first class had about

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four hundred and forty officers and onehundred and twenty five enlisted, including forty
black women foot officer training and Captain. Captain Charity Adams was one of the
first black whack officers. That's amazingthat now, this is this is absolutely

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amazing. But but I want toI just want to hold hold the point
because we've got to run the break. But I mean, I'm I'm,
I'm captivated by this story and byyour knowledge of the history of that and
and I think it's absolutely fantastic.Um, So we want to make sure
that you have the appropriate time,and so at this particular time, we
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incredible Army unit, the sixth TripleEight, in their exemplary service in World

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War Two, and folks, weare going to have a call of action
after this segment that we need yourhelp desperately to be able to help this
unit get a gold Star Memory recommendationcommemoration for the outstanding work that they have
done. And so I know thatyou had a question for Miss Fraser.

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Yeah, so obviously this is justbeen a fantastic story. These are historic
women who did some incredible things andthe story needs to be heard. More
people need to know about it.But my question is how many of how

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many of them are still with ustoday? I know we've we've probably lost
a lot of them, but howmany are still with us today? So
as of today, there are sixliving members. The youngest one is ninety
six. That's Miss Anime Roberts Robertson. She lives up in Wisconsin. So

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Hey, Wisconsin. She's there inMilwaukee, her daughters. Her family does
an outstanding job taking care of her. Wow. We have we have um
miss Lena Bell King. She isthe diva of them all. She lives
by herself. She is ninety eightyears old. She still drives, and

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she was I was actually at herhouse about two weeks ago. She lives
in Las Vegas. Oh, LasVegas. You got the diva hot there,
that's what we call them. Isshe like I said, she still
drives and she is so glad thatchurch is back in because she she goes
to church every Sunday. We havewe have miss um Um Johnson that lives

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in Montgomery, Alabama. She isone hundred and she is also a black
belt. That's right, karate.We have Missus and we have Missus Griggs.
And Missus Griggs lives now lives downin Jacksonville, Florida. She is

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ninety six years old. She's downthere with her family. We have Missus
Heaton and Missus Heaton is one hundred. She lives in North Carolina and she
plays a mean game of solitary.Okay, And then we have that bunch.

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We have Major Fanny Griffin mcclindon.She was a lieutenant in the six
Triple A. She lives out inArizona. She like missus King, still
lives by herself. She still drives, although she's not supposed to be driving,
okay, and she is one hundredyears old now, is the only

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one that when they were disbanding theunit, she trans sward from the Air
Force, from the Army into theAir Force. So that is why she
is major retired. Okay, thankyou so much for that, um,
Beverly. We've got some work todo, don't Yes, we do.

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Let's let's talk about what we needfor all of our listeners to do to
contact their congressmen so that we canget this passed through. But let's talk
about this commemoration that that we arewe want or need to help to get
this done. Absolutely, we wantto make sure that the six Triple eight
Central Postal Battalion gets the due recognitionby getting one of the highest honors that

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they could get in the US today, the Congressional Gold Medal. And so
right now at www dot Congress dotgov, you can actually look up by
number the House Resolution one zero onetwelve, so it's HR one zero one

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twelve, and it'll pull up aphenomenal summary that will talk about the six
Triple Eight Congressional Goal Medal Act oftwenty twenty one. This bill directs the
Speaker of the House of Representatives andthe President pro Tem of the Senate to
arrange for an award of Congressional GoldMedal in honor of the women of the

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six Triple eight Central Postal Battalion commonlyknown as the six Triple Eight, and
recognition of their pioneering military service,devotion to duty, and contributions to increase
the morale of personnel stationed in theEuropean theater during the operations during World War
Two. And so with that beingsaid, we need as many people to

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write their representatives in their state becauseit is not only a Virginia legacy.
We had one of our survivors hereand we lost her in fear, and
as you just heard Lisz shared,we only have six left out of a
battalion of eight hundred and fifty five. We only have six left, and

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so to be able to bestow thishonor on the remaining survivors and their families,
it would be just awesome. Theywere over I think thirty five other
states that had recruits for this unit, so it's definitely not just a Virginia
thing. And nine times out often, if you're listening to us today,

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you had some members come from yourstate to join this historic unit.
So please reach out. Look upthe HR one zero one twelve on www
dot Congress dot gov and reach outto your members. You'll be able to
see who has already signed on andthen by default the other representatives to be

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able to reach out. We havesome letters, Liz, if you could
share about the letters, we cando the letters and share those also.
Yeah. But but because we dohave lists in Florida, UM, I
will say this that um we wewe we thank you, miss miss Frasier

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for for basically elevating the state ofFlorida because they have been they have been
the butt of many jokes here atthe but but yeah, yeah, but
we appreciate that and so and sofor our listeners, I want to say
this again that it's h R onezero one two okay, twelve, h

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R twelve right, So thank youso much for that. So uh yeah,
the letters, and before we talkabout the letters, Beverley, when
we talk about this Congressional Medal ofHonor. It has to go through the
Senate and also the House of Representatives. Where is it with the Senate?
So it has and passed through theSenate, and I want to say that
it was already passed at least amonth now. So it's interesting why it's

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taking some time to get through theHouse because at this point it's just over
one hundred I think one hundred andtwenty, one hundred and twenty seven,
and we need to get all theway up to two hundred and ninety.
So at this point we haven't evenmade half in the House. So there's
a lot of work to be doneacross the nation. Yeah, thank you

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for that, Miss Fraser. Canyou you wanted to share one of the
letters? So the letter is afirst of all, this is a bipartisan
bill. Yes, Republicans, Democrat, Independent, it's all bipartisans. I
need all of you to contact yourrepresentative and ask your representative. All they

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got to do is say I cosponsor, they hit a button, okay,
get a button, co sponsor it. Okay. We lost Miss Rudoc
on March twenty seventh of twenty twentyone. She was ninety seventy. On
April twentieth, Senator Moran, whoactually started this whole thing with the Six

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getting the Congressional Gold Medal, attendedher burial, and at her burial he
said to us, we have securedthe last fifteen co sponsors for the Senates
bill of getting the Congressional Gold Medalfor the unit. And you talk about

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excitement. I even think Miss Rudockind of raised the cast a little bit.
So now we need the House ofRepresentatives. Okay, Ohio, I
need Ohio because the commander of thesix Triple Eight lived and Canada lived in

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Dayton. All of you Ohio's youknow, Charity Adams lived in Daton with
the school at Wilbeford. Okay,with the Ohio state, I almost started
to go to Ohio state. Okay. Let the letter is a non bipartisan

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letter. It can be sent toany representative. All you gotta do is
go to that Congress. God God, look up your look up the bill
and see in your state who hasnot. If you live in like me,
I'm from Pinellas County, Florida.If somebody over in Citrus County up

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in the Panhandle, oh I'm sendingthem a letter. Okay, it's a
general letter, and you can alsocall, you can text, you can
tweak, get on Facebook, allthat social media stuff that came from the
mail that came from these women thatthe mail. Okay, so all you
people that don't write letters, geton your social media page, get on

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your representative page and just say hey, can you please co sponsor HR ten
twelve. They know what it is. Okay, that's awesome. Thank you
so much for that, Miss Fraser. Any any last words before we close
this particular segment of the Todd AllenShaw that you'd like for our listeners to

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know. Miss Rudock often talked aboutthe history and you gotta know your history
where you come from, in orderto know where you're going to why you
are here today. And so Isay to all of you that the six
Triple A was a part of WorldWar two. This all black female unit

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also guaranteed your freedom. So todayis the reef you have social media,
Facebook, Twitter, all that stuff. It is because of eight hundred and
fifty five African American women who notonly got the mail out, but they

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still strong, they represented, andthey did it with respect and dignity.
In spite of what was against them, they did not fail. So I
actually let's not fail them. Missludox is September sixteenth, she would have
been ninety eight. But Miss mcclindonbirthday is September twenty second, she'll be

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a hundred and one, So canwe get her a birthday present so she
so we might can get her onthe plane to come here and get this
Congressional Gold medal as good as adiamond of shiny gold medal. Yeah,
any last word at comments, Beverly, I just want to echo what Liz

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was saying. There's a quote thathas resonated with me. Tell the story
of the Mountain Uklon. Your wordsbecome a page and someone else's survival guide.
And I am so excited that youallowed us to share this page of
history. It's so fitting, notonly the timing, but just how how

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things are going in this society rightnow. We have to share the stories.
We need to make sure that ourcurriculum, our history is shared from
our words, from our perspective.We can't always look for someone else to
tell our stories. We have tobe the ones to tell those stories correctly

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and make sure they're remembered absolutely absolutely, Darvo. Yes, yes, sir,
so, I just want to echoonce again, make sure that you
contact your representatives and get them tocorrespond to this. I think it's very
important that kind of alluded to itearlier. We need to start talking more

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about the contributions that we have madeto this country. We don't hear enough
about it. We know a lotof the struggles, we know a lot
of the pain, we know alot of the trauma that we've been through,
but we do not celebrate enough thepeople who have given contributions to this

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nation. And they deserve to beknown just as much as all of the
other ones who are not black areknown. So they deserve We have a
few left, make sure they gettheir flowers before they leave about it.
Thank you so much, and I'dlike to come back too. So oh

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absolutely, your family now that's theway we work here. Your family now,
both of you. So we reallyappreciate both of you being here and
the story. And I am deeply, deeply humbled, and I'm just so
glad that the Lord has saw fitto allow us here at the Todd Allen
Show to be used as an instrumentto get the word out And I'd just

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like to close this for our listenersthat we are what we continually do.
Excellence, then, is not anact, but a habit. Until next
time, you're listening to The ToddAllen Show. The FCB Radio Network first

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