"Homefront Heroines" follows a grouping of quirky, private in addition to determined women who decided to teach where no adult woman had gone earlier -- into the Navy every bit WAVES. It tells the storey of the to a greater extent than than 100,000 women who joined the Navy during World War II.
Senator Barry Goldwater was a commander of a WAVE detachment during WW2, in addition to spell every bit a senator tried for many years to teach them access to the VA... which kept getting shot downwardly yesteryear the other congressmen... simply he persisted until he was a real senior senator, in addition to finally either wore them down, waited for less conservative senate members, or finally convinced the naysayers to top it.
