Article 5XQPC Betty Reid Soskin, America’s oldest active ranger, retires at the age of 100

Betty Reid Soskin, America’s oldest active ranger, retires at the age of 100

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Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
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She began working with the National Park Service at 84 to reveal untold stories' of Black people's efforts during the second world war

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service's oldest active ranger, has retired at the age of 100.

Soskin, who worked at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front national historical park in Richmond, California, spent her last day as she had for the last decade and a half: sharing her experiences and those of other women who worked on the home front in the second world war.

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