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Wonder City Stories: Interlude #1
Oct. 6th, 2010 12:44 pmTruth, Lady Justice, and the American Way
“Of course, given the codename,” Dorothy Catherine Sanderson told me,” we tried to come up with a transparent blindfold sort of thing. It didn’t work, so I just stuck with the sword, though I went through swords like Grant through Richmond.”
Sanderson is the civilian name of the iconic, much-decorated World War II superhero, Lady Justice. We should have been having this conversation over tea in her neat, well-appointed living room in a small but immaculately-kept house. But we spoke while seated in battered nylon folding chairs outside the rusty silver van she calls her home, drinking instant coffee in chipped, mismatched mugs. Hers read, “#1 Mom.”
Later, she opened the back of the van and showed me the milk crates containing row upon row of painstakingly labelled cassette tapes. “I tape every conversation I have with the VA,” Lady Justice said, running her fingertips over the plastic, “and I file it here.”
Most of us know that Lady Justice enlisted in the Gold Star Battalion in December of 1941. Her superiors expected that she would simply be the secretary of the commander at the time, but she soon distinguished herself on the test field.
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“Of course, given the codename,” Dorothy Catherine Sanderson told me,” we tried to come up with a transparent blindfold sort of thing. It didn’t work, so I just stuck with the sword, though I went through swords like Grant through Richmond.”
Sanderson is the civilian name of the iconic, much-decorated World War II superhero, Lady Justice. We should have been having this conversation over tea in her neat, well-appointed living room in a small but immaculately-kept house. But we spoke while seated in battered nylon folding chairs outside the rusty silver van she calls her home, drinking instant coffee in chipped, mismatched mugs. Hers read, “#1 Mom.”
Later, she opened the back of the van and showed me the milk crates containing row upon row of painstakingly labelled cassette tapes. “I tape every conversation I have with the VA,” Lady Justice said, running her fingertips over the plastic, “and I file it here.”
Most of us know that Lady Justice enlisted in the Gold Star Battalion in December of 1941. Her superiors expected that she would simply be the secretary of the commander at the time, but she soon distinguished herself on the test field.
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