Headline Nov. 25/ ''' CRYPTOGRAPHERS GIRLS CONFECTIONERY '''

''' CRYPTOGRAPHERS GIRLS 

CONFECTIONERY '''

*RAGE AND REALITY* ARE just so bound to collide in the world's utter failure to address so many of its-

Core and central issues of bias, injustice, inequality, equal opportunities, wars, meddling, interference, wayward education, deprivation and poverty. freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and systems and governance.

ALL BRAVADO will vanish, like snow on desert's dusty face, as thy and the mankind's materialism will come to a head. 

But Thank God, for The World Students Society, some semblance of sanity will prevail, with students providing leadership and illumination for the world to steer.

CODE GIRLS : Welcome you all  -the citizens of the entire planet to  The World Students Society. { for every subject in the world }. 

Mr. Sultan Abbasi, Mr. Amin Malik, Dr. M Jawaid Khan, Ahmar Ali Khan/Apple, Scientist Munawer,  Mr. Fahim Khan,  Dr. Masud Reza, Dr. Iftikhar A Khan- Engineer Shahid Shakoor, Dr. Imran Bokhari- Mr. Alamgir Khan.

Mr.Saleem Khan Kasuriya,  Qazi Amjad Manzoor, Dr. Auan Mohammad Akhter/Canada, Mr. M Hamad Khan/UK, Mr. Imran Khan/ Far East, Mr. Raja Gulzar Abbasi, Mr. Wajid Shah, Mr. Rumi Shumail, Mr. Haider Naqvi, Mr. Nusrat Hussain, Mr. Saqib Kiyani, Dr. M. Tanoli/ technologist. Mr. Hamad Peerzada.

VERY MUCH like the Students of the world, A former Washington Post reporter, Mundy was inspired to tackle this book after her husband, Mark Bradley, a veteran Justice Department official, read a declassified World War II document-

About a counterintelligence operation, which note that many women schoolteachers worked on this project.

The author of three previous books that touch on feminist themes, Mundy paints a vivid portrait of daily lives of this energetic single young women -the upheaval and challenges of adjusting to the high-pressure military environment-

The condescension and sexism from male colleagues and superiors, the cramped living quarters, the constant anxiety of brothers and boyfriends in harm's way, the wartime romances, weekend high jinks and and stress-related breakdowns.  

Three-quarters of a century later, with firsthand recollections of World War II vanishing daily in the obituary columns, Mundy was able to track down and interview more than  20 former code breakers such as-

Ann Caracristi, an English major at Russel Sage College who turned out to be a problem-solving prodigy that as 23-year old she became the head of an Army research unit. 

Dorothy Braden Bruce, a 97 year-old former Virginia schoolteacher known as Dot, described the tense experience of decoding urgent data from a Japanese supply ships and also offered up amusing and poignant stories about wartime life.

Those account are supplemented by numerous oral histories, declassified documents and exhaustive research at the National Archives.

Mundy delves deeply into a transitional pre-Betty Friedan moment in American life when institutional discrimination was the norm. As she points out, a 1941 Navy memo proposed paying female clerks, typists and stenographers $1,440 per year, while men in the same posts were to receive $ 1,620.

The gap grew even larger higher up the ladder; female Ph.D's were slated for $2,300 salaries compared with $3,200 for their male counterparts.

The author unearths the stories of pioneers like Agnes Meyer Driscoll, a math, physics and language whiz who joined the Navy in 1917, broke Japanese codebooks in the 1920s and 30s and went on to train a generation of male codebreakers, only to be patronized and pushed aside during World War II.

The talented cryptologist Elizabeth Smith Friedman was hired by the Coast Guard in 1927 to break the code of rumrunners and went to work for other federal agencies, designing the codes used by the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of  C.I.A.

Yet her husband, the Army code breaker William Friedman, was sometimes given credit for her work.

In her effort to cram in an enormous amount of information and give so many women their due, Mundy's book suffer at times, since it's hard to keep track of her vast cast of characters, many with similar backgrounds.

As their stories began to blur, I found myself frequently flipping back to remind myself who was who. When she attempts to tale thematically, her time shifting can be confusing.

At the end of Part Two of the book, it's the summer of 1944, the United States military has just retaken Guam, and Dot Braden is feeling optimistic that Allies are doing well in the Pacific.

When Part Three begins a few pages later, we're back in 1943' then the story abruptly zigs to dismal times in 1942. 

At the end of the war, virtually all of the female code breakers were given their walking papers and returned to civilian life. Only a few superstars were asked to stay on {among them Caracristi, who went to become first female deputy director of National Security Agency}.

For these accomplished and resourceful women, who had been given a heady taste of professional success, it was jarring to have to fight be accepted to top graduate programs on G.I.Bill or embark on traditional paths as wives and mothers.

Warned not to reveal their secret wartime lives, many remained silent about their work valuable service.

Thanks to Mundy's book, which definitely conveys both the puzzle-solving complexities and the emotion and drama of this era, their stories will live on. 

With respectful dedication to the Grandparents, Parents, Leaders, Students, Professors, Teachers of the world. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society and Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:

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Good Night and God Bless

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