Women Started Getting Involved

Did you know that during the draft for World War 1, many of the men who were drafted did not proceed to the war because they failed the physical test to become a member of the army. We are talking like millions of American men. That is so sad. American used to be so out of shape that some of us did not even earn the right to begin training for the army because they thought it was a lost cause. Some people failed the conditioning test, some people failed the eye test, some people failed the health test, and there were many more tests available to fail. Bottom line is, America was not very healthy.
World War II comes around and what do you know, the same thing happens. Millions of men get turned away from the army because of their physical condition and capabilities. Also, at this time, women started getting involved. Females started joining the army, and a lot of them were in better shape than some of the males. Not only did they have to get in shape to join the army, but those wives whose husbands had been shipped off to do their country a great service had to be in shape to because they had to now start working to earn their family a living. So not only were they taking care of their usual daily jobs of home maintenance, but they were also working hard to earn money and stay above water while their spouses were gone for an extended period of time. World War II is really when the women started taking a rise in society and this stuck out to me because women hold a large role in the workforce today. I had never thought about when that had really began. I knew that back in the day, women did not do much besides take care of things around the house, and of course I knew that a good amount of wives these days work full time, but I had never thought about when the time was that women really started working hard. Today I came to that realization and for some reason, it hit me like an epiphany.