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Podcast: Voices of Oklahoma
Episode: Marina Metevelis
Description: Marina Metevelis answered the call to defend the United States as one of the iconic bandanna-clad Rosie the Riveters.Marina was sixteen when Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941—an event that inspired her to apply for a job at the Wichita aircraft plant where the B-17 Flying Fortresses met the wings that carried them into battle. She became a Rosie the Riveter her senior year in high school.When Marina was a kid, she spent summers in Tulsa visiting her uncles. They were 32nd Degree Masons…and so were the oil barons. During those visits, she met...