I got an email from Alex Dietrich, one of the coolest women in our network, about a congressional gold medal ceremony in Washington DC on March 10th for Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS) who served their country during World War II.

Alex was a jet fighter pilot in the Navy and has asked that we get the word out about the ceremony and these amazing women.

She wrote: “Nearly 70 years have passed since WW II. In those critical days over a thousand women pilots took to the skies in military aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces to relieve desperately needed male pilots for combat duty. These women paid their own way to enter training, took up a collection to help pay for the expenses of burial when one of their peers was killed, and, when they were disbanded in 1944, they had to pay their own way back home. There were no honors, no benefits, and few thanks.”

Today, 300 of the one thousand pilots are still alive. It is Alex’s hope that 85 Broads can help donate funds/miles so that these amazing women can make it to Washington to receive their congressional gold medals on March 10th.

We have personally donated 50,000 American Airlines Advantage miles to help pilot TY Killen attend the ceremony from California.

These women totally rock. To learn more, go to [flygirls.org].