Gina Elise, founder of Pin-Ups for Vets, on the cover of the 2025 calendar Twelve years ago, when I was a young septuagenarian, I penned a piece on an organization called “Operation Calendar.” As the name implies, the group published calendars featuring stunning models. “A project designed to raise money for charities assisting wounded troops.” Depictions of attractive women, “pin-up girls,” have been around since times immemorial. In military circles they have been part of warriors’ most prized personal belongings. As I wrote twelve years ago: They accompanied our World War I Doughboys as fol…