Greater Cincinnati Women's American Legion Post 644

01/20/2026

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01/20/2026

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Dr. Gladys West, a trailblazing mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has passed away at 95.

Born in 1930 in Virginia, West pursued higher education during the Jim Crow era fighting against discrimination earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Virginia State College (now Virginia State University).

In 1956, she began a 42-year career at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, where her groundbreaking satellite-based models of the Earth’s shape became essential to GPS.

Though her contributions went unrecognized for decades, West received long-overdue honors by being inducted into the US Air Force Space and Missiles Pioneers Hall of Fame and honored as Female Alumna of the Year by the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Awards in 2018, cementing her legacy as a quiet architect of modern navigation.

Job well done, Dr. West!

01/04/2026

01/01/2026

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12/07/2025

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84 years ago today, just before 8:00 a.m., hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the U.S. Naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii.

In the aftermath of the attack, nearly 20 American naval vessels and over 300 aircraft were either damaged or destroyed. More than 2,300 American sailors, soldiers, and marines, and 63 civilians were killed. Another 1,000 were wounded.

To this day, more than 900 of those killed remain on the USS Arizona, entombed in the wreck. Some survivors of the attack have been cremated after their own passing— their ashes interred at the memorial to rest with their shipmates.

Today, we remember all those lost at Pearl Harbor, and honor all those who felt called to serve in the aftermath of December 7th, 1941.