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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2798261, member: 10461&quot;]I pity the fool that tries to steal a bite out of Rosie the Riveter&#039;s sammich!&nbsp; She looks as though she could put a serious bruisin&#039; on any wrongdoer, <i>without</i> even havin&#039; to bash &#039;em with that big-honkin&#039;, <i>heavy</i>-lookin&#039; rivet gun.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yet I&#039;m sure she was a sweet <strike>little</strike> old lady in her later years, who no doubt spoiled her many grandchildren rotten.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see a bit of my own grandmother in that image.&nbsp; She was of that generation.&nbsp; She was a <a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11584304/#Comment_11584304" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11584304/#Comment_11584304" rel="nofollow">1938 beauty queen</a> but also a tough cookie.&nbsp; One time we came to visit and she had this big black eye because she&#039;d shot a rattlesnake behind the guest house where her grandchildren would be staying, and the clip on her pistol had flown back and hit her in the eye!&nbsp; (She had been a champion pistol shot in the 1950s and had the silver trophies to prove it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Norman Rockwell captured the essence of &quot;Americana&quot; perfectly in that &quot;Rosie the Riveter&quot; painting, as he so often did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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