Betty Reid Soskin, 94, was beaten and robbed two weeks ago.
It healed, but still "internal" pinched two weeks after he was beaten and his condominium robbed in Richmond, California, Betty Reid Soskin, guardian of the oldest park in the country 94, Rosie the National Historic riveter Park returned to work / Front of world War II on Tuesday.
"Experience has something from me, and I'm still trying to measure it," Soskin said, a room full of journalists, Ranger and supporters at a press conference in the National Park unit opposite. "I do not know what it is, but some time lacking in something that can be replaced by back to my routine."
Betty Reid Soskin and Superintendent Tom Leatherman speak to the press at Rosie the Riveter / World War II Front National Historical Park.
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Soskin said he has never been whether he would return to work. In fact he did not have back when Tom Leatherman, a general superintendent of the National Park Service and the owner of Soskin be convinced. "I had to put him on a certain pressure not to return as soon as he," Leatherman said in an interview after the press conference. "She wanted to come back last week, and I just wanted her to have a little more time."
Few would have to do for the desire blamed. On June 27, burst an intruder in the room Soskin, while she was sleeping in her bed, according to previous press reports, the man wrestled his cell phone away and began her moved to strike, from his room and his apartment, where he continued his Attack. Soskin could escape her attacker by grab his genitals and joined in his bathroom where adjustment plate ready "machine" and heated to mark it as a trade mark for the police. Meanwhile reached the attacker in their affairs and escaped painted with a bag of coins, jewelry, hand Korean fans, computer, laptop, camera, iPad and mobile phones. The most painful was the loss of a commemorative coin that President Obama had given his last December, during a tree lighting ceremony.
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"I have found that the room had little value unless someone besides me," he said. "But the experience in my hand to have the sink President is a secret treasure of experience, and that's what was inherent in this room."
President Obama has promised to Soskin, a new piece, even if it has not been received.
In response to the attack made the Rosie the Riveter Trust Fund Betty, whose profits will, as requested by Soskin, for a documentary about his life and work.
Soskin was a guard there for 10 years. She had as an employee of an auxiliary file all black Union during the Second World War, and there are about 16 years old were in the planning process Rosie the Riveter / World War II Front National Historical Park involved while representing acting field for the California State Assembly ex Dion Aroner women and Loni Hancock. These days, Soskin presentations three days a week at the visitors center, about their experiences in the segregation of America to speak grow their working as an employee in a meeting room Jim Crow segregation ( "It was a time of mourning," she) says , and its way to become a Ranger interpretation.
Richard Brabham, a 72-year-old resident of Richmond, was one of the dozens of people who came to hear Soskin his first day back to work. "She is a legendary figure in Richmond," he said. "We wanted to be sure and look back on the first day and welcome back."
Soskin he said for the overwhelming support grateful he was received by the community, both locally and online, and that "he did not realize how strong it was, can also be virtual support as powerful."
Betty Soskin Rangers returned earlier this week after a break there two weeks work.
Kathleen Richards
Although Soskin, he says with the lights still has difficulty sleeping from said vanity - not afraid - was mainly responsible for his decision to stay at home for almost a week after the attack. "I have lived with the fear that someone shows me a pair of black eyes on YouTube," he said. "I'm almost obsessive not want to look like a victim, because I feel like a victim not."
Insurance. One of his colleagues in the park guards gave him a mug with the words: "Iron Lady" - words that can be interpreted in more than one way.
"It was an adventure," he said on the flight home invasion. "You do not always, but it's over."
Kathleen Richards Ok-soo is a contribution to the Posse Trail, located in Berkeley, California. She has written for publications across the country and was the chief editor and author of Strange boss and co-director of the East Bay Express.
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