Politics | 07/01/2008 11:12 am

Fallen Patriots: A wowOwow Salute to 110 Fallen Female Soldiers

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Credit: perkmeup, iStock

No matter where you come down on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is no debate about our country’s devotion and gratitude to the men and women who have lost their lives in service to America.

This Fourth of July, the Women on the Web takes a moment for a solemn salute to the ultimate wowOwow women: the 110 female soldiers who have lost their lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Our hearts go out to their families and friends, and we stand humbled by and proud of a nation and a culture able to produce daughters so brave and so honorable.

This Fourth of July, the Women on the Web takes a moment for a solemn salute to the ultimate wowOwow women.

The number of fallen women in today’s conflicts outstrips the female death toll in the Korean, Vietnam and Desert Storm confilcts combined. According to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, eight women died in the line of duty in Vietnam and 16 died during Desert Storm in Kuwait. Today, women make up 15 percent of America’s active duty forces and, as a result, the death toll among women soldiers has significantly climbed to where it stands today, July 2, 2008, at 110.

These are the true daughters of the American revolution, the revolution that has allowed women to shatter glass ceilings in all walks of life … even when the consequence is heartbreaking.

Links to wowOwow’s Fourth of July photo tributes to all 110 fallen female soldiers are listed below:

Names A - D click here.
Names E - H click here.
Names I - O click here.
Names P - Z click here.

Many thanks to the Military Times for their generous help in preparing this special salute.

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I’m afraid Mark you are intellectually and morally bankrupt when you talk like that.

By Frank Peterson on 07/02/2008 1:30 pm

Frank and Cherokee Rose, riddle me this. How come since the feminist movement really got rolling about 40 years ago our divorce rates soared to 50%, close to a majority of children are now born out of wedlock, housing and education costs went through the roof, and the buying power of wages fell to the point only top level upper middle class single family earners can afford to allow a woman to choose to be a fulltime homemaker?

By Dr. Mark Klein on 07/02/2008 1:46 pm

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Why did the divorce rate get going big time—because women, who really knew it all along, just said: move on bud—you’re an a****** and I’m not putting up with you moronic ways any more. The majority of children are born out of wedlock? where in hell do you get your figures for that one Markie. And as far as a full time home-maker—why would an intelligent woman want to stay home washing you sh**** underpants when she can get out and work to her full potential as a human being.. Mark, I really thought \we left men like you back in the palaeolithic. But I seem to be mistaken. DAmn!

By Frank Peterson on 07/02/2008 2:01 pm

Mr Klein- I do not believe that the feminist movement is responsible for the divorce rate soaring and this topic is not about that. I realize we all slide off topic from time to time but this really isn’t the time or the place for that. We are here to honor some very brave young women who unfortunately got caught in the cultural crossfire that our country has created. Their loss is beyond what some of us can comprehend. Yes there are children now without mothers….mothers without daughters….sisters missing sisters and so on. The bottom line is the tragedy of it all. The problem is how and when will it stop. How do we become part of the solution? How will our country demand better…better foreign relations…better acceptance of those different than us? I take my vote very seriously and these pictures of the dead women who thought they were doing the right thing have convinced me with more conviction than ever that we must stop the republican war. Stop the madness!

By Josie Sullivan on 07/02/2008 4:26 pm

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Josie: Then keep your eyes and ears open re: Iran and what plans this administration is cooking up. I smell something stinky. To think we have lost so many women and men in this fruitless conquest––There are no words––I have run out of words–the anger I feel makes me stupid with grief.

By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 07/02/2008 5:55 pm

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Phyllis- Go back to the Ann Coulter topic. You have specific instructions. You can find them easiest if you search my name and look up the post on the first page. Gorilla hugs!

By Josie Sullivan on 07/02/2008 6:42 pm

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I got your message and accepted it and am slightly burned at the fringes by its self destruction. I called her but couldn’t get to her directly–––got to talk to someone who called themselves “her people” so I says you better let me talk to her or MY people are going to beat you up and sure enough that worked and she came on the line and I gave her my spiel and hey, she’s no dummy, she told me what to do with those tickets in no uncertain terms, told me to stop monkeying around with her, even called me a liberal looney. You can well imagine my chagrin which, by the way, I’m still nursing. We’ll just have to come up with something else––sorry I failed the task, but then I was never any good at espionage. Now I’m off to bed––––very weary after all this work.

By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 07/02/2008 11:19 pm

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Miss Phyllis- aka… the monkey girl …ROTFLMAO! I think we need to get agent #99 in on this one. Remember her on Get Smart? She was the brains of the operation….the little bit that she had. Ok, you’re right…. tomorrow is another day. We can meet at the old coffee shop. You know, down the road from that cute little boutique with the funky belts and shoes.

By Josie Sullivan on 07/03/2008 12:18 am

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OOps! sorry wowowow…I thought I was talking on the Ann Coulter B-day wish topic. I mean no disrespect.

By Josie Sullivan on 07/03/2008 12:22 am

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Hello Phyllis - I heard on the news this week that it is the Israelis who want to bomb the nuclear reactor being built in Iran. There are two other problems. (1) The Israeli Air Force will need to be able to refuel their jets on the homeward flight and their capabilities for in-flight refueling are limited. Therefore, they might seek help from the Americans. Will that help be granted? The scuttlebutt is that the Americans are going to be blamed no matter if we assist or we do not. (2) The nuclear reactor in Iran is built hundreds of feet below the ground. The Iranians built it there in order to avoid the same destruction as occurred when the Israeli’s took out the reactor in Iraq. There is a question as to whether a single strike would destroy the reactor and the Israeli Air Force does not want to attempt the strike unless they can be assured of better results. Finally, from what I have read, there is real concern in Israel that if Iran has the capability of producing the plutonium, then it will be only a short while before they have nuclear missiles. The concern is that those missiles will be used against Israel inasmuch as the Iranian Government has stated openly that they favor the total annihilation of Israel. And most Israelis believe the leaders of Iran partly because those are the words used by Hitler in the 1930s except he said the annihilation of all Jews.

By Bonnie Oliver on 07/02/2008 9:31 pm

Phyllis, “the anger I feel makes me stupid with grief.” Me too, and you can bet they are cooking up something evil with Iran…Seymour Hersh said so, and Pulitzer Prize winning Seymour Hersh is a much bankable source than anything in our so called Haliburton government. http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/08/bombing-iran/

By I Love Money And Money Loves Me on 07/02/2008 10:48 pm

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what josie said. why do we have to fight when our security is not involved? let the upper classes fund the oil war, although i still think we ordinary people should be against it.

By mary lou s on 07/02/2008 7:58 pm

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Because Iran is peeing and defecating in the community pool. Staying in one end of the pool and ignoring Iran won’t help us. We would have to turn our backs on Israel and Iraq which would only enable the genocidal mullahs in Iran. Not gonna happen.

By Bella Mia on 07/02/2008 9:52 pm

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Mark, we should have NEVER let them near schools, books or news. They have too much information. It was better when we let them vacume in high heels and pearls. They were happy then.

By Rush L on 07/08/2008 10:14 am