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Ms. Rapp discusses losing her job to a soldier returning from overseas, but being given the same opportunities to obtain housing, education, and civilian employment as those who'd served overseas.
Transcription
What happens is our job was strictly war time and one year to process the men coming back to taking over our jobs. And a soldier came back and he took my job. So all of a sudden, I am a civilian and I’ve been offered a job at D Sigs, but I can’t stand it. I mean I trained this chap to take over my job but of course he wasn’t going to do it the way I did and there was no way I was just going to go into the pool of stenos. So the government was very good for us, to us. Well, they had and we benefited the way the men did, you know school grants, clothing, retraining, whatever. You could buy a house and if you were married a soldier coming back, they could buy a house. They could buy a little farm. They could do so many things, and we were able to take advantage of that.