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Old War Stories: Women in Uniform
Put two vets together, and you get an instant rapport about shared experiences. Doesn’t matter what generation it is — a vet is a vet. I’m currently working on a submission for a as-yet untitled...
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Veteran’s Day: A Thousand Voices, and One Connection
After I got home from Desert Storm, I visited the Vietnam war memorial in Olympia, Washington. I’d gone there before the war, but I felt the need to revisit it. The picture below is from Flickr and...
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5 military things about me
1. I was in the Army Reserve, the Army, and the Army National Guard. Those are three different services. I started out with the Reserve because it helped me make the decision and decided to enlist...
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Week 2: 10 Weeks of 10 Stories
It’s hard to believe this was the site of a Civil War battle. Yet, it’s where the Battle of First Manassas was. 10 Weeks of 10 Stories Story #2 is off to a magazine for their May 31 deadline. It was a...
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Women Coming Home From War
Coming home from war is a profound experience. I remember when I came home from Desert Storm — March 1991 — and it was like I was in shock. Except it wasn’t either. My reality was so different from...
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Soldier Phone Home from the Barracks
With cell phones so easily available now, it’s hard to believe there was a time when we were limited to a pay phone out on a field. But that was the life of a barracks soldier in the army. We didn’t...
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Yes to all women
If you haven’t looked at it, check out the hashtag #Yestoallwomen. It was prompted by the California shootings and the killer’s hatred of women, and it’s shocked a lot of men because they don’t realize...
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The Soldier Conversation is Missing the Women
There was a photo that went viral over the last few days, identified as disabled women soldiers. It turned out to be models. There was some angry “How dare this happen?” on the veteran Facebook pages....
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Oldest US Veteran
SHE is 110 years old. Emma Didlake signed up for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. The Army History site has some of the background of the WAAC up. It’s interesting that the...
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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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The Soldier Conversation is Missing the Women
There was a photo that went viral over the last few days, identified as disabled women soldiers. It turned out to be models. There was some angry “How dare this happen?” on the veteran Facebook pages....
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Oldest US Veteran
SHE is 110 years old. Emma Didlake signed up for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. The Army History site has some of the background of the WAAC up. It’s interesting that the...
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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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The Soldier Conversation is Missing the Women
There was a photo that went viral over the last few days, identified as disabled women soldiers. It turned out to be models. There was some angry “How dare this happen?” on the veteran Facebook pages....
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Oldest US Veteran
SHE is 110 years old. Emma Didlake signed up for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. The Army History site has some of the background of the WAAC up. It’s interesting that the...
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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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