Modern Rosie the Riveter Wins Music CD

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Winner Announced for “We Can Do It! – Celebrating Women in WWII” Music CD Giveaway

On January 31, we announced a contest with the prize of a new CD featuring the vintage songs of WWII, performed by military bands. Altissimo Recordings has just released this CD and offered to give a copy to one of our commenters. In announcing the contest, we invited readers to tell us “what you like about Rosie or what you admire about women who worked in WWII or why you like the music of that era.”

We got some really great comments. We wish we had CDs for everyone, but we had to select just one. Our congratulations to Robyn Womac-Fortin. She seems to embody the modern day spirit of Rosie the Riveter. We hope you all agree with our choice. Below is her comment.

Be Sure to Get Your Copy of the CD

You can all be winners when you purchase a copy of this CD. Just click on the image to the left. Amazon lets you sample the songs. Then you can purchase individual ones or even the entire set as MP3 files. Or, if you prefer, you can purchase all 20 songs on CD. Either way, you’re bound to enjoy this nostalgic music.

Winning Comment

Congratulations Robyn…

As a young army wife of an active duty solider it is difficult when my counterpart is sent off to boot camp, then selection, and numerous training schools. At the beginning of 2013, he left for our first deployment.

We live outside the city surrounded by acres of farm land and I am out here all alone save my three dogs. When my husband is gone it always seems like my fortitude is tested with a crazy turn of events. The week he left, our truck broke down and I didn’t have the money to take it in. Instead I watched some YouTube videos and figured out how to replace an alternator on my own and fixed the truck!

Next, coyotes attacked one of my dogs mangling her to the brink of death. In the daytime I tend to her and at night I’m spotlighting to thin out their vicious pack.

When random things break around the house, and trust me they have, it’s on me to fix it. So I roll up my sleeves, give myself a pep talk and say “I can do it!” Last Halloween I bought myself one of your bandanas [through this website] and recently I find myself wearing it when doing yard work and repairs. Like refurbishing the old 1920s tobacco barn on the back of our property. Or sanding down my old doors for a home project.

I know it may sound crazy but when your all alone sometimes you find your strength through things you normally wouldn’t. When I put on that polka-dotted piece of cloth I feel like I have the motivation and will to take on any obstacle. I think back on what it must have been like for all those women to be outta their comfort zone, learning a new trade to help keep our nation functioning and our men alive through all their efforts on the home front.

I have always enjoyed music from past eras, Ella Fitzgerald is my all time favorite singer. If you ask most girls in their 20s today who Ella Fitz is, they most likely have no clue. The music during that era for some reason has always spoken to me. Before my husband left he bought me a going away present, even though he was the one doing the leaving. The present is a replica gramophone that uses no electricity just the acoustic construction of the horn to play music off iPhones! You place your phone in this hole and sound funnels up the base through the neck and is amplified out. It even makes new music sound like an old record.

I would love nothing more than to have the songs of World War II play through my gramophone to help time pass till my husband returns.

–Robyn Womac-Fortin