85-YEAR-OLD FORCED BACK TO WORK: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EXPLOITS WWII VETERAN IN “SHAMEFUL” POVERTY CRISIS
Betty Reid Soskin isn’t a feel-good story. She’s a DAMNING indictment of a broken America.
At an age when she should be honored in dignified retirement, this 100-year-old Black woman and WWII home front worker was FORCED to return to the National Park Service at 85—not out of passion, but out of NECESSITY. Insiders whisper that her paltry ranger salary became essential for survival, exposing the crushing truth that veteran pensions and Social Security are FAILING our greatest generation. “It’s a national disgrace,” a source choked. “We parade her as a treasure while the system let her treasury run dry.”
Worse, the very history she teaches REVEALS THE UGLY LIE. Soskin courageously educates on the segregated war effort where women and minorities like her fought for freedoms abroad they were denied at home. NOW, SEVENTY YEARS LATER, she symbolizes how this country CONTINUES to consume its elders and heroes, especially those of color, offering applause instead of adequate support. Is this the “victory” they fought for? A nation that mercilessly grinds its living history into a paycheck-to-paycheck existence for viral buzz and tourist dollars?
Her inspiring smile hides a HORRIFYING reality: we are all just one bankrupt policy away from ending our golden years as a government attraction.
They call her a ranger. She is America’s canary in the coal mine, singing until her last breath for an audience that refuses to see the poison in the air.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
