Incredible Action: Erin Miller and the Recognition of WASPs

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🗓️ 4 July 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We're speaking at Podcast Movement in Chicago this week, so we are thrilled to have two great interviews to share with you. In this episode, we talk with Erin Miller about her amazing journey to have her grandmother, Elaine Danforth Harmon, buried at Arlington National Cemetary. Harmon, a Women Airforce Service Pilot during World War II, wanted her service recognized as it would have been if she were a man. Erin and her family organized and advocated, leading to the unanimous passage of a bill that allows WASPs to be buried at Arlington. We are inspired by Erin's action and honored to share her story. In The Pearls, Beth shares her essay, Humanity First, on terrorism following the harrowing attacks in Bangladesh and Iraq this week. Finally, in the Heels, we reflect on Independence Day and the privilege and responsibility of participating in a democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When we ask our listeners to share good news with us, we couldn't have imagined hearing from a
0:04.8	listener who just finished making good news happen. Today we share an interview with Erin Miller,
0:10.1	who just won a big victory on behalf of her grandmother and women everywhere. Happy Independence Day,
0:16.2	Pantsy Politics listeners. It's just back here for a special holiday episode.
0:30.0	Sarah and I are at podcast movement this weekend Chicago, so we're recording this a little bit early
0:35.0	and we have two interviews to share with you this week. Today we're talking with Erin Miller. On
0:39.6	Friday, we're going to share our interview with Fred Davis about political advertising. I cannot
0:44.4	wait for you to hear both of these. While we're at podcast movement, we're going to be speaking at
0:48.6	an event called PMX, which is like a series of TED talks about podcasting. So if you happen to
0:54.5	me in the Chicago area, we're talking on Wednesday at 1.30 at the Hyatt right on Michigan Avenue in
1:00.0	Chicago. That event is free and open to the public, so we'd love to see you there. We're also going
1:04.9	to host a little listener meetup on Thursday evening at about six o'clock. If you are in the Chicago
1:11.0	area or can be in the Chicago area, we know a few people have talked about driving in. We would
1:16.1	love to see you. Just hit us up on Twitter, Facebook or by email and we'll share the details with
1:21.4	you. For the pearls this week, I want to acknowledge the tragic events that have taken place in
1:27.3	Bangladesh and Iraq over the weekend. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deaths of over 200
1:34.2	people in those two countries. And I thought that I would just briefly share with you an essay that
1:40.3	I posted on our blog about these events. We started podcasting in November 2015. That month
1:48.3	brought bombings in Beirut and the Paris attacks. In December, we have a San Bernardino shooting
1:54.2	in March Brussels, June or Lando and Istanbul on July 1st, Bangladesh and July 3rd Baghdad.
2:02.3	This list excludes 18 other incidents either executed or inspired by ISIL in Egypt, Turkey,
2:09.6	Yemen, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Lebanon, Tunisia and Syria. When we spoke about the
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