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'America's Oldest Park Ranger' Is Only Her Latest Chapter

Betty Reid Soskin shares forgotten histories as a national park ranger

The 97-Year-Old Park Ranger Who Doesn’t Have Time for Foolishness

"Everything in my life has to be truthful and meaningful, because I don’t have time for foolishness."

Today, the Natl. Park Service's oldest active ranger, Betty Reid Soskin, turns 100 years old. Betty works at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park, in Richmond, CA, where she's worked since she was 84 years old after helping with planning for the newly created park. Betty wanted to make sure the public received a well-rounded sense of WWII history from multiple perspectives – women and men of all races. Betty says: "What gets remembered depends on who is in the room doing the remembering ... When I became a ranger, I was taking back my own history.”

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'America's Oldest Park Ranger' Is Only Her Latest Chapter (New

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Leah Jahn