Military Veterans

Pauline Grange Johnson served on the home front in her role as "Rosie the Riveter at Beech Aircraft Company in Wichita, KS, during World War II.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt expressed appreciation to citizens like Pauline in the following words engraved at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

They have given their sons to the military services,

They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels.

They have made the planes and welded the tanks, riveted the ships             and rolled the shells.