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Kate Kerr, who is 101-years-old, built B24s during WWII. She resides in Tallahassee, Florida but still reflects on her days as one of the iconic \u201cRosie the Riveters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia Devine\/Tallahassee Democr<\/p>\n
USA TODAY Network, Reuters<\/p>\n
This Rosie the Riveter is still flexing at 101, Florida.<\/p>\n
Tallahassee’s Kate Kerr was barely out of high school when she left home to help build B-24 bombers during World War II.<\/p>\n
Eight decades later, she has plenty to say about when women learned to stop asking for permission.<\/p>\n
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This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Florida TODAY: Rosie the Riveter at 101, Publix BOGO, Bernie Sanders<\/p>\n
Reporting by Randi Atwood, USA TODAY Network-Florida \/ Tallahassee Democrat<\/p>\n
USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
Copyright Reuters or USA Today Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n
This story was originally published October 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate Kerr, who is 101-years-old, built B24s during WWII. She resides in Tallahassee, Florida but still reflects on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-431920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}