Unseen Heroes: Women in Sports Officiating and Beyond!

And I'm telling you, when I started officiating in 1979, I thought it would get better for women, but I don't think it has unless you're a woman who officiates in a sport that you played. Clearly women in the WNBA can officiate basketball, but probably mostly in the WNBA. No, no, I'm going to take that back. The NBA is pretty good about it. Why? Because women play basketball. Yeah, but if it's something women play that people recognize that women play there's, there's probably going to be more opportunity. But let's face it, officials are going to disappear. They're going to be replaced by machines. And then we won't have any. They were all my students. Two were my legal foster kids. The other ones just decided I was mom. And they are now all in their 20s. Successful. I'm very proud of them. And now I'm a grandma. Their job was to locate, identify, and bury the dead. Hmm. You've never heard of them, have you? No. Everybody always says, wow, I never thought about that. The bottom line is, where do the bodies go? He— Bud was at Normandy on D-Day. He was there D-Day. 10,000 people died that day, Allies and Germans. Where'd the bodies go? We had to funnel 186,000 Allied soldiers, sailors, Marines, people through that area. You can't have bodies lying around. Yeah. So the bottom line is, when you go to Normandy today, there's a beautiful cemetery. That everybody goes to. Bud and his men built that. And all over Europe— actually, we've got— there are American cemeteries in 26 countries worldwide that the Graves Registration Service men built. You know, back then they couldn't ship bodies home that easily. Today, if someone dies in battle, they're home in, you know, 24, 48 hours. But the bottom line is, think about that job. Sometimes all you get is a foot, and you got to figure out how to identify that.