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Veteran Wins Espy Award
Danielle Green, a woman Iraq War veteran, received an Espy Award (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award. She played for Notre Dame, then enlisted in the military, was wounded, and then got a...
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Soldier, Storyteller Available!
My Desert Storm book is finally out! I honestly didn’t expect this would happen. I knew I wanted to write a book about my experiences even a year after the war. But it was such a difficult subject to...
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There are priorities in writing
After my post on Writing as a Woman War Veteran was published, I got an invitation to write for a story call for veterans. For about a day, I was flattered and thinking it over. But there was one...
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A Call to Pens for Women Veterans
Someone on Twitter reported “How insulting” that I thought I was the only woman veteran writing, so I wanted to write about why I think that. Especially with Veteran’s Day on Wednesday. There’s going...
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Veteran’s Day
I went to IHOP for Veteran’s Day—they were offering red, white, and blue pancakes to the vets. I wore my Desert Storm because well, I could. The reason I picked the IHOP is because I go there are the...
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What does a veteran look like?
I’ve seen a couple of these turn up over the last few days: A woman veteran uses one of the courtesy spots some merchants provide and gets a nasty note from anonymous person telling her she can’t park...
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Women who served in Vietnam
When I went on the cruise last yet, there was a surprising number of women veterans. It included a nurse who had retired as a colonel, and she’d served in both Vietnam and Desert Storm. The women who...
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U.S. Army Veteran and Paralympic Swimmer
This is a great story about Sergeant Elizabeth Marks, who was injured in the war and became a Paralympic swimmer. Usually when I see stories about wounded veterans, they’re always about men, and they...
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A Tribute to Women Veterans
Women veterans tend to get forgotten because the assumption a veteran is a man. This is a song that pays tribute to the women veterans. Enjoy! Filed under: Military, Videos Tagged: Veteran's Day,...
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Woman WWII Prisoner of War
Every time I hear about themed months or “firsts” (first woman this or that), it’s sad to see. The first is that it seems to be the only way women get visibility for accomplishments and that we really...
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