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PinUps for Vets visit VA Hospitals: Morale Booster! or Sexist?

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Since 2006, Gina Elise and the Ladies of PinUps for Vets have visited over 13,000 veterans in VA hospitals and active-duty bases.  They take on a 1940s WWII USO entertainer persona and bring "sunshine" to hospital-bound veterans. 

Gina talks with host Jim Fausone about the origins of the idea, the annual calendar that is produced to raise funds to support veterans and the critics who have spoken out in 2019.  You can judge for yourself if this effort is a morale booster or promoting sexist stereotypes as some of the critics claim.

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