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No Time To Waste
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NO TIME TO WASTE celebrates legendary 98-year-old park ranger Betty Reid Soskin's inspiring life, work and urgent mission to restore critical missing chapters of America's story. The film follows her journey as an African American woman presenting her personal story from a kitchen stool in a national park theater to media interviews and international audiences who hang on every word she utters.
The documentary captures her fascinating life -- from the experiences of a young Black woman in a WWII segregated union hall, through her multi-faceted career as a singer, activist, mother, legislative representative and park planner to her present public role.
At the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, Betty illuminates the invisible histories of African Americans and other people of color. Her efforts have changed the way the National Park Service conveys this history to audiences across the U.S., challenging us all to move together toward a more perfect union.
'Touching and engaging...Nonagenarian Soskin reminds viewers of the importance of telling the complete American story - one that recognizes racial and gender discrimination and celebrates the accomplishments of African Americans - so that we, as a nation, can understand from whence we came and where we should be heading in order to create, as she states is her mission, 'a more perfect union.' No Time To Waste is an inspiring film that spotlights Soskin being 'empowered_by history' and encourages others to do the same.' Traci Parker, Associate Professor African American History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Author, Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement
'No Time To Waste is a warm, wonderful, delightful, and moving portrait of one of the most interesting and charismatic people in the National Park Service. The film tells how Betty Reid Soskin has helped teach National Parks how to tell America's history while including the stories of Americans who have traditionally been left out, even the painful parts. It will provoke thoughtful conversations about how history might be told where you live now.' Mark Stoll, Professor of Environmental History, Texas Tech University, Co-editor, To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History
'Betty Reid Soskin demonstrates the importance of finding one's own voice, and using it, calmly and fearlessly, to speak truth to power. As she refuses to allow her own past to be ignored, Soskin, born in 1921, reveals the vital role that history plays in all our lives. This surprising and inspiring documentary will inform and spark discussion on a wide variety of topics, including not only issues of race, gender, and aging, but the importance of history and who's responsible for its telling.' Nancy C. Unger, Professor of History, Santa Clara University, Author, Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History
'No Time to Waste encourages Americans of all ages and walks of life to see more fully who 'we the people' are. With wisdom and integrity, Betty Reid Soskin speaks to the complexity of this nation's history, honoring the many cultural and historical threads defining our larger American experience. She exemplifies what it means to be a responsible citizen and inspires a principled life. Betty inspires life, period. This documentary could be used for elementary through postsecondary school levels, its lessons reaching children and adults. I hope countless others will be as deeply moved as I have been.' Lauret E. Savoy, David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College, Author, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
'Soskin reminds us that one person's story can bear witness and fill in the gaping holes in our national story.' Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times
'There is good reason for Betty Reid Soskin's compelling message that she - and we - have no time to waste in the continuing fight for racial justice, workplace rights, and environmental protection.' Steve Early, Beyond Chron, The Voice of the Rest
'No Time To Waste chronicles the how the power of one person, through the simple act of sharing her own personal history, changed how our National Park Service operates. Viewers will be inspired by that simplest of philosophies that it is never too late to start telling your own story...Lifelong learners will especially appreciate how the values of experience, wisdom, and dedication translated into national recognition for Betty Reid Soskin.' Michael Ezra, Professor of American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University, Editor, Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives
'We're all rooting for Betty Reid Soskin, the Black woman who at age 85 became a park ranger to set the record straight. Dispelling the myth of seamless national unity in the face of fascism, Betty grips audiences with her personal stories that center Black Americans' experiences with racism on the home front during World War II. Given today's national reckoning on race, there is no better time to learn from riveting storytellers like Betty Reid Soskin.' Maryan Soliman, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Scripps College
'Betty Reid Soskin is an American heroine and patriot. By challenging the racialized and gendered narratives of WWII, Soskin's candor, wit, and optimism affirm that it's never too late to share our truth. No Time To Waste is a must-see documentary to better understand why the stories we tell, honoring the complexity and diversity of the American past, are the ones with the most power to inspire and unite us.' De Anna Reese, Professor of History and Africana Studies, California State University-Fresno
Citation
Main credits
Soskin, Betty Reid, 1921- (on-screen participant)
Bidleman, Carl (film producer)
Bidleman, Carl (film director)
Bidleman, Carl (screenwriter)
Bidleman, Carl (narrator)
Bidleman, Carl (editor of moving image work)
Other credits
Director of photography, Stefan Ruenzel.
Distributor subjects
African-American Studies; American Studies; Citizenship and Civics; History; Race and Racism; Women's StudiesKeywords
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- I know who I am.
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I'm standing on the shoulders of people
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I can identify over the centuries.
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My story is important because I represent an important part
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of the American narrative.
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And when I'm on this stool, my story will not be forgotten.
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And I'm the only person of color in the room,
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and the only person who could look
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at the scattered sites that lay throughout the city
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and instantly recognize them as sites of racial segregation.
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Because what gets remembered
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is determined by who's in the room doing the remembering.
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- Betty Reid Soskin is the most amazing woman
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I've ever met in my life.
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- Oh, she is a national treasure.
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- History is what happens to us every day,
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that we're all making history.
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- She is a phenomenal woman. A walking history book.
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- It's probably the beginnings of this national park.
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- It's hard not to know about Betty.
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Betty is kind of a national figure.
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- There's very little to be nostalgic about,
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if you're not white, of the periods of 1942 to 1945.
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- [Dan Howe] I had heard several years ago, I think,
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about the ranger in California
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who, you know, is older than any other ranger
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and was incredibly articulate
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and told this incredible story.
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- That dramatic arc of my life from 20 to 15 years ago
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in no way is a sign of personal achievement.
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- She seems like someone's grandma or aunt or sister.
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- Wow, she's just an incredible woman with an amazing story.
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- Instead,
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it's a solid indication of how much social change
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occurred in this country over those intervening years.
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- Betty is a force of nature.
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- She's sorta like Bette Davis, Angela Davis
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and Yoda all rolled into one. (laughing)
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- My great grandmother was born into slavery
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in 1846, in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
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Enslaved for 19 years,
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which means that she was owned by a family,
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owned physically by a family called the Breaux.
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I was 27 years old, married and a mother
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by the time my slave ancestor died.
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I knew her as a matriarch of my family.
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She was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation
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when she was 19.
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Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln and my great grandmother
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were alive at the same time.
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It was his action that freed her from slavery.
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- I have never seen anyone have quite the impact
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that Betty has.
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She's able to talk about these incredibly difficult topics
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that can be almost borderline controversial
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depending on your point of view.
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- Yes?
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- [Kelli English] But she does it
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where you can really put yourself in her shoes
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and understand her perspective.
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- I grew up in the city of Oakland
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as a child of the service worker's generation.
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Our fathers and our uncles were the Red Caps
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and the Pullman porters and the waiters
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and the janitors and the bellhops and laborers.
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And our mothers were pretty much 50-cents-an-hour
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domestic servants taking care of white people's children,
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white people's homes,
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because that's who we were as a nation in those years.
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- What did you originally wanna be when you grow up?
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- You know, I never really knew.
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I think I wanted to be a mother, most of all.
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Women's roles were pretty well dictated by society.
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I could have been a nurse or a librarian or a teacher,
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if I were white.
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But I could only have been an agriculture worker
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or a service worker because I was a person of color.
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Being a clerk,
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even in a segregated Jim Crow Union Hall, was a step up.
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My folks were really proud of me, I was a clerk.
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I wasn't making beds in a hotel.
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I wasn't taking care of white people's children.
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I wasn't cleaning white people's houses.
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I was a clerk.
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That in 1942 would have been the equivalent
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of today's young woman of color
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being the first in her family to enter college.
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- This is a slice of history
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that is so fundamental to American history
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that to not learn it is really not to know America.
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- [Narrator] Betty Reid Soskin has been writing
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about the life she has lived on a blog she began in 2003,
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when she was 81 years old.
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- Maybe I'll be worth reading
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because mine is a voice of hope.
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- [Narrator] Born in Detroit in 1921
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because her father escaped New Orleans
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for three years to avoid lynching
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after speaking his mind to a prominent white man.
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Then fleeing New Orleans during the great flood of 1927,
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when the levees were bombed,
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drowning her family's home in the Seventh Ward
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in order to save white neighborhoods.
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Arriving in Oakland at age six
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and growing up under the nurturing eye
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of her beloved grandfather, Papa George.
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Graduating from Oakland's Castlemont High
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and working in the segregated Boilermakers Union Hall
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at the Richmond Shipyards to help win World War II.
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Marrying Mel Reid, a professional football player,
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starting a small business, Reid's Records, in Berkeley.
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And moving their young family to a suburb
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where, as the only black family,
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they received death threats,
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and the PTA fundraiser at their young son's school
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was a Minstrel Show in blackface.
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- In these final years, I'm empowered by that history.
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- [Narrator] Becoming politically active
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and 20 years after those death threats,
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being elected by that same community
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to represent them at the Democratic National Convention.
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Working as a Field Representative for a State Legislator
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and attending a planning meeting for a new National Park
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to commemorate the World War II Homefront experience.
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- And I attend my first public meeting
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and I see that my country is in danger
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of establishing a park
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that can amount to a little more than a bumper sticker
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saying "We can do it."
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And by so doing, my history is being obliterated.
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- [Narrator] The National Park Service
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heard Betty's objections.
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They didn't push back.
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Instead, they offered her a uniform
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and an opportunity to publicly share a more inclusive story.
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This brand new ranger was 85 years old.
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- I became a park ranger
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because somebody put a uniform on the life
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that I was already living.
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"We the people of the United States of America
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"in order to form a more perfect union..."
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These are the first stirring words of our Constitution.
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I once heard those words as describing birth rights.
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As divinely inclusive,
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despite the fact that my African-American enslaved ancestors
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were denied the freedom to describe their end
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by the Founding Fathers.
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And I'm so now aware of the patterns in life
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that we're on an ascending upward spiral.
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We keep touching the same places
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at higher and higher levels.
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I'm not enslaved like my great-grandmother was.
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Our nation will continue to change
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and to evolve for your having become a part of this
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neverending striving toward the attainment of
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a more perfect union.
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We welcome your voice and your dreams
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and your presence among us,
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as together we continue the neverending grand experiment
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of government of the people by the people and for the people
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as citizens of these United States of America.
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Welcome to each of you from each of us, Americans all.
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Thank you.
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I have a deep sense of being in my last decade.
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I don't have any time to waste.
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Hey!
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- Hey, morning.
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- If I don't get it right, I don't have time to do it over.
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That every word I utter has to be right.
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- Hi Betty, how are you?
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- Fine. How are you?
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- Good. - I think that she feels like
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this is one of the more important things that she has done,
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that all of what she's experienced in her life,
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she's now able to articulate and to share with the world.
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- I'm not really a historian, I'm sharing my oral history.
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And so I'm depending upon memory.
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That I get to spend it this way, as a ranger,
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is such a privilege.
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You know,
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it's like I'm running a federally funded revolution.
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(laughing)
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- [Narrator] Betty's revolution
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is waged on the Richmond, California waterfront,
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at Rosie the Riveter World War II Homefront
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National Historical Park.
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- I've been given a theater and a stool
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and a microphone and a soap box,
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and I get to tell truth to generations
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that will be able to use it.
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- [Narrator] Here in one of America's newer National Parks,
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the story of civilian efforts to win World War II
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is preserved and celebrated.
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- The Homefront story itself is a little told story.
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You know, all the memorials,
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all the museums in the country in the world
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are really about wars and the military.
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But the other side of the equation,
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and that's the reason that this whole park is here,
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is to tell the Homefront story.
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The guys that were building ships
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for the British under Henry Kaiser in 1940 went off to war.
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So all of a sudden your work force changes dramatically.
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So you have people that are housewives and sharecroppers
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coming to California, coming to the Bay Area,
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to build ships.
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- When the film is over,
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a film that the National Park Service
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has gone to great length to get put in there,
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and I say, "Yes, but." (laughing)
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There was nothing that was familiar in this film.
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But if you're going to try to tell that story,
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that Homefront story, in 15 minutes,
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you know, what do you do?
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You go for the Hollywood ending,
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that we all got together for the sake of democracy
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and we set our differences aside and we built the ships
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and we won the war.
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And that tends to be pretty much
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the way history gets written.
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I didn't like it at all.
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The history as I had lived it was nowhere in sight,
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not one minute of it.
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- How do you look at the awkward parts of the story?
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And that's one thing that this park does well,
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and that's one thing that Betty does well.
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It's not a pretty picture.
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There were all these contradictions.
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You know, yes, there were union jobs,
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but they were segregated union jobs.
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Yes, there were places for women,
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but there was also discrimination in the workforce.
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- And first they hired the men who were too old to fight,
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followed by the boys who were too young to be drafted,
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and then single white women.
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And when that pool's exhausted, married white women.
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In 1943, a first,
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a black man hired to do the heavy lifting.
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It wasn't until late in 1944
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when black women began to be trained as welders.
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And if you know that sequence
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and you look at that picture on our wall upstairs,
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or in this film
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with all these people standing together
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like brothers and sisters.
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Color, all colors and sizes and shapes
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and ethnicities and ages.
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And we come from a more enlightened time,
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and we look at that picture and we think,
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"Look how they got along back there in 1942.
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"Why can't we do that?"
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What you have to know
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is that those pictures have to date
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from late 1944 or early in 1945,
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because in 1942 you couldn't have gotten to stand together
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to have their pictures taken.
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But what you also see in those pictures
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is that acceleration of social change.
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They came in as sharecroppers,
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but by the time the war ended they were shipbuilders.
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And it began to occur to me somewhere along the line
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that if we had a place on the planet
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where we could go back and revisit that era
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not by the myths that we made up about it—
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you know, none of this "greatest generation" stuff,
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you know, no skin-crawling American exceptionalism,
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none of that.
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But if we could go back and revisit that era
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as it was lived in truth, by those of us who lived it,
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what we could get is a baseline
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against which to measure how far we've come.
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But you got to know where we started.
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Remember that trajectory?
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That was the reason that at 85 I became a park ranger,
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because that story was so important.
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To preserve and mark that place in history.
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It's an amazing, amazing story.
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(bus engine revving)
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And since I've outlived most of the people
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whose memories don't agree with mine,
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I'm now an authority. (laughing)
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- Prior to the opening of the Visitor Center in 2012,
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Betty was primarily doing programs on the bus.
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- Which became famous.
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I would say almost that was her first claim to fame,
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and everybody wanted to go on Betty's bus tour.
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- And I had never ever identified
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with the Rosie the Riveter story,
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because for me that was a white woman's story.
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However, one day I walked to the Memorial
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and I found myself there.
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I found myself in the story,
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and that is part of the magic of the Memorial.
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What began to happen for me
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is that it was not necessarily Rosie the Riveter
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that attracted my attention,
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but how much social change began to occur
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that was initiated in that period of 1941 to 1945.
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Here you've got widespread opposition
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to hiring women and minority workers.
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Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 8802,
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which was to ban segregation in defense work.
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It was never executed.
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I think that it came into being
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because of Eleanor's nagging.
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I don't think that—
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We have to realize that the racism was structural.
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It was not in our personal behaviors, it was structural.
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It was supported by everything
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that came out of Washington at this time.
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The opportunity to insert the African-American stories
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on that bus tour is the first place where I started.
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- [Narrator] One story Betty tells
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took place at nearby Port Chicago,
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a US Navy munitions depot where African-American sailors
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loaded artillery shells onto transport ships.
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These American servicemen
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were not welcome at the white-only USO,
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so Betty and her husband Mel Reid
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invited the young sailors into their home.
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- On July 17th of 1944,
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there were a group of sailors who he'd brought home.
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And we had spent the afternoon,
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as usual, listening to records, talking.
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That evening, they were on a curfew.
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They left at about five o'clock.
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(loud explosion)
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At 10:47, the explosion occurred.
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Two Kaiser ships were blown up—
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vaporized actually— and 320 men were killed.
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I never knew which of those youngsters survived that.
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And whenever I go out to do anything at Port Chicago,
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to this day I scan for names and wonder.
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(soft instrumental music)
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- [Narrator] The sailors who were fortunate
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to survive the devastation
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refused to return to the Navy's dangerous work
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without new safety protections.
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50 men were court-martialed, convicted of mutiny,
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and sentenced to prison.
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The unfortunate who died
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were subjected to even more indignity.
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- There were 22 caskets
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into which body parts were separated out
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and buried in the Colored section of San Bruno Cemetery
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in California.
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Even knowing that there is a Colored section
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in a federal cemetery for me was a shock.
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How they went about deciding which were the body parts
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to go into those 22 caskets—
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Where would I have gone?
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(soft instrumental music)
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- [Narrator] When the Visitor Center opened in 2012,
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Betty began making presentations in the basement theater.
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Some days only a handful of people showed up.
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Nevertheless, she presented,
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determined to change the world one conversation at a time.
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- I didn't know about Rosie the Riveter Memorial,
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because it had not freed anyone that I knew.
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Our mothers and our aunts had been working outside
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of their homes in slavery.
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So I didn't have a sense of emancipation of women at all.
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- And I don't think she really quite realizes
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the incredible magic
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that happens when she's in front of an audience.
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It's a combination of things.
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She speaks with the weight of her experience, but also,
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and what's most remarkable is that at her age,
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she still has the communication skills
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to be able to articulate that experience.
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- If we don't know where we started,
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we have no conception of where we are or how we got here.
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Only if we go back and retrace our steps,
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and that's what the park became for me.
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- For those of us who are African-American rangers,
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talking about and interpreting this history
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can be really challenging at times.
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- She's willing to share herself.
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She's willing to be vulnerable and share the emotions
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and not just talk about the history and the facts,
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and share the hard stuff.
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- And that I'm able to speak my truth without fear
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that might be disturbing to a white person
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is the last thing in my mind,
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because that would require
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that I think that there's something wrong
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with what I'm feeling.
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- It's very easy to be angry about the past.
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It's very easy to have that rage,
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to have that sense of wrongdoing having been done.
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But it's not so easy to make it as accessible as Betty does.
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- Even her anger can come across in a way
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that inspires people.
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- Every now and then I remind them, you know,
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"This is who we were back there,"
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in order to free them to come with me to where we are.
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Because that's not where we are.
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On January 20th of 2009,
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I'm a seated guest with a picture of my great grandmother
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in my breast pocket at the inauguration
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[00:24:30.133]
of America's first African-American president
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in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial,
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whose life was contemporary
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with the life of my great grandmother.
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And if that doesn't blow your mind, check your pulse.
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- Most of the time her programs are completely full,
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and we have had to institute reservation systems of a sort.
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But I think she's also increased the diversity of visitation,
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that a lot of folks are coming specifically
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to hear her perspective.
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- Okay.
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- Even got the camera guy behind you.
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- Okay.
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That is just unreal.
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My life is so limited to being here
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in this tiny little apartment
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and going to work at the Visitor Center
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and being in a little theater of 48 seats.
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(upbeat music)
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- Well, she's 92 years old, and she's not happy.
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[00:25:24.200]
The nation's oldest full-time Park Ranger
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is sounding off about the shutdown.
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- [Narrator] In 2013, when the government shut down,
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Betty lost precious time
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with her small but growing audience.
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- Betty was— started getting contacted by reporters.
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And she was getting interviewed by Arsenio Hall,
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she was getting interviewed by Anderson Cooper,
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and they were asking her all these questions
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about the shutdown.
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What Betty tried to focus on is her experiences.
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- I feel like I am being given the privilege
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of helping to shape a National Park.
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And who can resist that?
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- And then the stories were all of a sudden
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not about the shutdown, but it's,
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"We want— we now want Betty.
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"We want this person who was able to share those experiences."
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And that really snowballed into, you know,
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follow-up newspaper articles, follow-up radio interviews,
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- [Narrator] Coverage from national
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and local media allowed Betty's quiet determined voice
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to reach a new audience,
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one that extended far beyond her kitchen stool.
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- I don't know how to deal with what's happened to my life.
[00:26:33.434]
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I'm probably the hottest thing in the Safeway checkout line,
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but I don't know what that's about.
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- (laughing) Oh, she,
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Betty's a rockstar in the park service.
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There's no question about that.
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Everybody will elbow their way through the crowd
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to get to say "Hi" to Betty.
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- [Narrator] One day while speaking to high school students,
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Betty was called out of her presentation
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to take a phone call.
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- That's crazy.
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[00:27:05.501]
(soft instrumental music)
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- [Narrator] Her colleagues worried
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that Betty had received bad news.
[00:27:31.767]
(soft instrumental music)
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(laughing)
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- You thought, "Yes, yes I will."
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- [Narrator] In fact, the news was very good.
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- This is what one lives for.
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- [Narrator] She returned to the theater
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and couldn't resist sharing it with her young audience.
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- Inviting me to participate in the Tree Lighting Ceremony
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and introduce the president of the United States.
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[00:28:02.767]
(audience clapping)
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[00:28:09.167]
- [Narrator] Betty was going to meet Barack Obama.
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- We all thought it was natural
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for her at some point to meet the President.
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I mean, she's an amazing, inspiring person.
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And why wouldn't the President want to meet her?
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- She asked if it was okay
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if she could bring her granddaughters with her.
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And we figured that out, brought them along.
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(soft instrumental music)
[00:28:32.267]
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- Oh, and at night it's lit up with lights.
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[00:28:43.634]
(soft instrumental music)
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Isn't that beautiful?
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- It's pretty.
[00:28:53.000]
(soft instrumental music)
[00:28:57.334]
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- It just felt this wonderful continuum of family,
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[00:29:22.801]
of story, of history reaching across the years
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from Betty's great grandmother to Betty's granddaughters
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as young women getting to experience that.
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(soft instrumental music)
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[00:29:42.033]
(upbeat Christmas music)
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- Tonight, it is my great honor to introduce to you
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someone very special to us in the National Park Service.
[00:29:54.400]
Betty Soskin is 94 years old, and the oldest park ranger.
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[00:29:59.634]
She— (audience cheering)
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And Betty was nervous and excited
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that she was gonna get to introduce the President,
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but she also got to meet him before that, right.
[00:30:11.501]
Of course.
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And the curtains opened
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and out come President Obama and Mrs. Obama,
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and the President just walks right up to Betty
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and says, "Hi, Betty, you know, I've heard all about you."
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- And he puts out his hand
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and I put out my hand to receive it,
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and he cups his hand over mine
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and transfers the Presidential Seal to my hand.
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And it's a total surprise.
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- It is my pleasure to introduce a woman whose experience
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and dedication to sharing a more complete American story
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has inspired so many, including me.
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Please welcome Betty Soskin.
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(audience cheering)
[00:30:56.000]
(upbeat Christmas music)
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[00:31:06.133]
- Thank you, Director Jarvis.
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[00:31:09.167]
I was last in Washington on January 20th of 2009
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[00:31:14.734]
for the presidential inauguration.
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[00:31:18.200]
In my breast pocket was a picture of my great grandmother,
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[00:31:23.267]
Leontyne Breaux Allen,
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a woman born into slavery in 1846
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in St. James Parish, Louisiana.
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It is fitting that I've returned to Washington tonight
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with my granddaughters in an area known as the Ellipse,
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because this is a full circle moment.
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In this season of hope and promise,
[00:31:52.300]
[00:31:52.501]
reflection and celebration,
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it is my honor to present to you the President
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[00:32:00.734]
of the United States, Barack Obama.
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(audience cheering)
[00:32:05.567]
(upbeat jazz music)
[00:32:08.300]
[00:32:12.100]
And when he was hugging me, suddenly I realized,
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I know why he's feared in Washington,
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because he puts the lie to white supremacy.
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[00:32:23.234]
- Merry Christmas, everybody.
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(audience cheering)
[00:32:28.100]
Thank you, Betty, for that introduction,
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for your extraordinary service as one of our park rangers,
[00:32:37.501]
[00:32:39.033]
and for all of your
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and your great grandmother's contributions to this country.
[00:32:44.334]
Please give Betty a big round of applause.
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(audience applauding)
[00:32:48.367]
- And it was an amazing experience.
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It was like going up the yellow brick road
[00:32:52.467]
and finding the Wizard.
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(audience laughing)
[00:32:55.634]
Seriously.
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It was absolutely just the most—
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the greatest thing I think that ever happened to me.
[00:33:01.300]
(pensive instrumental music)
[00:33:05.300]
- A 94 year old woman attacked and robbed in her home.
[00:33:08.200]
One of the items stolen is a commemorative coin
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given to her by President Obama himself.
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- Police in Richmond say a home invasion, turned violent.
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- A man broke into Soskin's second floor apartment
[00:33:19.767]
before making his way into her room,
[00:33:21.567]
where she was asleep.
[00:33:22.701]
And then he dragged her from her bed through the hallway.
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- I fully expected he was going to kill me.
[00:33:28.567]
- [Reporter] The man hit Soskin several times
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but she managed to get away,
[00:33:33.067]
locking herself into the bathroom for the next 45 minutes.
[00:33:36.734]
The suspect managed to get away with an iPad, laptop
[00:33:39.434]
and cell phone.
[00:33:40.534]
He also took some commemorative coins,
[00:33:42.467]
including this one given to her by President Obama.
[00:33:45.634]
Soskin says most of the items she can live without,
[00:33:48.667]
but the coin she received from the President in December
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is dear to her.
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- If I got that coin back, I think I can forgive anything.
[00:33:57.200]
[00:33:57.467]
- You know, my immediate reaction was, you know,
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"Do you wanna go, do you wanna go somewhere
[00:34:01.501]
"and get out of here?"
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Like, "I don't wanna be in this place,"
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this all happened to you right here.
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And in that moment, you know, this 95 year old woman
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[00:34:12.634]
said to me, "If I leave, I may never come back.
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"So I don't wanna leave my house,
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"and I don't want this person to take my house from me."
[00:34:23.000]
[00:34:24.634]
- [Narrator] Despite Betty's resolve,
[00:34:26.534]
many of her colleagues wondered
[00:34:28.234]
if the assault had taken such a heavy toll
[00:34:31.167]
that she would decide to retire.
[00:34:33.501]
- You know, cause I was, you know, I'm like,
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"Is this the time, Betty,
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"where you're gonna sorta wanna step away?"
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(Betty's colleagues clapping)
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- [Narrator] Just two weeks after the attack,
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Betty came back to work.
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- She's tough,
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incredibly tough for her age, and incredibly resilient—
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which says a whole lot more
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than we even knew about her character
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and her ability to recover from something like that.
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- I don't think there's any way
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to prepare myself for this morning.
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It's good to see all of you
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and to feel the support that the community has given me.
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- What are you gonna do on your first day back?
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- Get back into the saddle. (laughing)
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I'm going to go into the theater at two o'clock
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and do my talk.
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- I think it's there that I realized, you know,
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she draws energy from the program that she does
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and the Visitors Center.
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And the idea that she wasn't going to be able to come back
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and do that was actually scarier
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than a lot of things for her.
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She didn't wanna lose those things that she had built.
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And one of those things that she had built was
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this ability to share her personal stories
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with people in the audience.
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- You've been my hero for so long
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and an inspiration for me doing park service.
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- Could I ask Ranger Betty Reid Soskin
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to come join me here on stage?
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(audience cheering)
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So everybody here clearly knows and loves Betty.
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And you probably know the story
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that made the national news recently,
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which is she was a victim of a home robbery.
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I was telling her,
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I hope I have the presence of mind
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that as I've locked myself in the bathroom
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so the bad guy can't get to me that I'd plug in my iron.
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So if he gets through the door, I'm gonna brand him,
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so that they can identify him when he gets to the hospital.
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Betty's pretty tough.
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But in that home robbery,
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among things that were taken was a coin
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that she'd been given by the President.
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So the president's been pretty active at this event,
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and I just wanna tell you he's not done
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because there's a replacement coin
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and a letter from the President of the United States right here.
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(audience cheering) (soft instrumental music)
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- "Dear Betty,
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"I was deeply saddened to hear everything
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"you've been through recently,
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"and I wanted to extend my warmest regards
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"and send you a new challenge coin.
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"As I said at the Tree Lighting Ceremony in December,
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"your service is profoundly inspiring to me
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"and to people across our country.
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"In the dedication that guides you every day,
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"we see the optimistic, resilient spirit
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"that has always been central to America's promise.
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"Please know that I'm keeping you in my thoughts.
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"Sincerely, Barack Obama."
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(soft instrumental music)
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What's happened is I feel as if I dropped formally
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into the 21st century for the first time.
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There's a sense of wonder about it all,
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and I certainly am enjoying the attention
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but it doesn't feel real.
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(soft instrumental music)
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- Hi, you're here! I'm Monica.
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Nice to meet you.
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We're so glad to have you.
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- It's like waking up in tomorrow every day.
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Oh, look at this!
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(soft instrumental music)
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I am having first-time experiences.
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Well, can you imagine how crazy that is?
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Oh, my goodness!
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- [Narrator] A woman born in 1921
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finds her voice resonating in the 21st century.
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- I'm a late bloomer. (laughing)
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For life for me is a grand improvisation day after day.
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I get to make it up as I go along.
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- [Narrator] Betty has been flooded with invitations
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to speak to technology conferences and civic organizations.
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Profiled on the Today Show,
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celebrated at The Makers Conference,
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featured in a social media post viewed 11 million times,
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named one of ten Women of the Year by Glamour Magazine,
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and been the subject
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of countless elementary school book reports.
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Her appearance on the Tavis Smiley Show
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led to publishing of a book
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drawn from Betty's oral histories
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and the over 13,000 entries on her blog.
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- Hi, it's so nice to meet you!
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- [Kelli English] And aside from that,
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she's had an impact on the Park Service as well.
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We visited several DC area sites
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and a number of them really wanted to pick her brain
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a little bit about how they can take an approach
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that's similar to hers at their sites
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and make it work for the stories that they're telling
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and the history that they're charged with preserving
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and protecting and teaching folks about.
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- And that's the work that we're involved in,
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in the National Park Service.
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And that's what's being expressed in my park.
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And if our parks remain in the past,
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we will have lost all our message.
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I went to Frederick Douglas's home yesterday
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and it felt like a mausoleum.
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Because here was this activist man from his generation,
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and here's a story of the freshening
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of the Civil Rights Movement
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that we're seeing through Black Lives Matter
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not represented there.
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And the dynamism in the history that we're now creating
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has to reflect itself in our park systems.
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And that was not present.
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Maybe I shouldn't have said that?
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- [Audience] No.
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- Okay.
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(soft instrumental music)
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- Me and Betty.
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(soft instrumental music)
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- [Kelli English] That's the kind of impact
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that Betty's having throughout the park system.
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- We work together.
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- And then looking at how we tell stories—
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not just the style and the storytelling, you know, nuances,
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but really just the overall approach
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to really bringing in those multiple truths
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and getting comfortable with the uncomfortable.
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- And so the young interpreters that are at these places
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are looking to Betty as a leader
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in how you tell these stories,
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in how you engage the American people
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in learning about their own story
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and the dark sides of it as well.
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- Is that okay?
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- If it's out, then it's totally fine...
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- [Narrator] Desiree Munoz
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is one of those young park rangers.
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She is a Native American trying to find an effective way
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to tell her people's history
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on lands that are now a National Park.
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- How do you tell your story that has such deep heartache?
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You know, how do you make it personal
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so people don't get offended?
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- [Narrator] She had heard about Betty's presentations
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and sent her an email.
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- And not even a day went by and I got a response
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and I was like, wow, like she does exist
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and she's such a sweet person
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that will actually give me the time of day.
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And she wants me to actually learn.
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- Desiree is an alumni.
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And her history is missing.
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And she's come here to see how she can introduce that
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into the park system.
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Did you find your answers, I hope?
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- I really did.
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And you really inspired me to make it personal
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'cause your story is personal.
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- And so many people have lived my history,
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and so many people have lived your history.
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And the nation is bereft without those.
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- I've learned from Betty that no matter
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who is in your audience,
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don't be afraid to let people know the true history.
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(soft instrumental music)
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- [Theresa Pierno] Welcome to the
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37th Annual Salute To The Park
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for the National Parks Conservation Association.
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- The National Parks provides
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a place where it's possible now
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for current generations to visit almost any era
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in our history.
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The heroic places and contemplative places
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and the scenic wonders like Grand Canyon
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or Yosemite or Yellowstone.
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The shameful places, in some cases the painful places,
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in order to own that history,
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own it that we can process it,
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because I don't think that as a people
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we have yet processed the Civil War.
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But the generations now can process that history
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in order to begin to forgive ourselves,
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in order to move into a more compassionate future together.
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(soft instrumental music)
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- [Narrator] The telling of America's story
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by the National Parks is now becoming more complete,
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thanks in part to the work of Betty and others
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who refuse to allow their own history to be ignored.
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- I think the long-term impact of Betty
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to the National Park System,
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we may not know that even in our lifetimes.
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Like if we talk about the ripples of Betty's work,
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I think are ripples that are probably will be sustained
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through long distance and through time.
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- And it is truly our sincere pleasure
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to recognize the significant contributions
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of Betty Reid Soskin.
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(audience clapping)
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- It took her the better part of her life
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to really find her own voice
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and to feel empowered enough to use that voice.
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And so now she has a platform
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and a willing co-conspirator in the National Park Service
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to give her that space and that platform
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to share her perspective.
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- And thanks to the National Park Service
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and its generosity,
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and it's awakening to the complexity of our history
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and allowing that to be inclusive
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and to capture those stories
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that were so important to all of us.
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Because they're not Black history,
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they're not Japanese history, they're American history.
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They're what we all are, because it's the only way
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that we can find our way back to the path
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that was spelled out in those founding documents
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of those crazy white men back there. (laughing)
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So thank you very, very much for inviting me to be here.
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(audience clapping)
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(gentle piano music)
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The future is made up of what I personally do
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or fail to do in the days that become weeks
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that become months that become years that become decades.
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That eventually become eternity.
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I am still forming that more perfect union
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and promoting a general welfare,
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and I will do that until I'm called away.
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(gentle piano music)
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(upbeat instrumental music)
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(laughing)
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- Oh, my god!
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- Happy birthday! Make a wish!
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- Oh, my god!
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Thank you.
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- Make a wish.
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- Make a wish though, you have to make a wish.
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- And you have to blow it out.
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- I got it all! (laughing)
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(soft instrumental music)
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Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 52 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: English
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