The Only Woman in the Room

by Marie Benedict

I must admit it would be hard for us to sell our soldiers and sailors on a weapons system created by a woman. And we’re not going to try.”

tonight, we raised two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars!” the host practically screamed, a necessity given the cacophony of sound coming from the crowd. I was stunned. No war bond campaign event had ever raised five hundred thousand dollars, let alone over two million dollars.

She eds up selling war bonds