needy fondrin, for example of thomasville, georgia, she talked about how it was the duty of all women on the home front regardless of their age to get involved. if ever there was on earth an elevated task for women, it is working for the brave men whose lives are offered up to -- for us, and on whom the salvation of our country actively depends. so that was the kind of similar view that both older and younger women held why they should get involved in the homefront effort. even though it really is putting them out there as public figures. they're very visible and certainly it was okay, though, in this kind of time in war time. what i thought was interesting is that even though these young women are sort of shadowing their mothers in these organizations, they're also doing their own thing, and they're expressing their patriotism helping out with the cause in their own way that's really centered within their peer culture. for example, the patriotic sort of frenzy of the confederate homefront encouraged young women to transform their social engagements that before they had used to find p

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