re: WNBA pulling jersey honoring female empowerment, for lack of diversity

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In any case, it would've been better if they could still honor the WASP corps, while still acknowledging their faults at the time.

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Those service women, weren't at fault, they didn't make the rules. They served their country in a time of need and should be honored.

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I had never heard of that program. It would be pretty cool to read up more on them.

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There is a show on PBS in Texas called "The Daytripper". He goes to locations around Texas and highlights restaurants, bars and other activities TX towns have.

On one of his trips he covered the WASP museum. It was pretty interesting. For one, very few people knew they existed besides the actual WASPs. Women in prominent wartime roles were not accepted in those days.

Another, among all of their duties is that they would pull targets 100 yards behind their planes for the men air force members to shoot at. 100 yards seems like a lot until you see the pictures and realize the further away the shooters are the more room for errors exist.

They also did not receive much pay and spent a lot of their own money to serve their country. It was a very close knit group as they were away from family, friends and other loved ones. The lady who curates the museum remembers the WASPs coming over to their house (her dad was a trainer or in charge of them) to play and cook, etc just try to have normalcy in their lives away from home.

He spent a few minutes of his program on it and I think he was blown away also. I think he thought he would just get some video of the planes and stuff they had in the museum. But the story turned into WAY more than that.

Daytripper website