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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You take care both of you May Lou and Dona—We all want you here with us for a long long time :-)

By Frank Peterson on 07/02/2008 11:46 pm

thank you, frank. i expect to stay, but if the doc says work needs to be done (roto-rooter for the veins or stent or whatever), time to get started.

By mary lou s on 07/03/2008 11:35 am

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Mary Lou s You take care of your precious heart too. It is worth it.

By Frannie Em on 07/03/2008 10:13 pm

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Dona So sorry to hear that you were in the hospital. Your heart is precious to us, please take good care of it. Thank you for your post about the soldiers, I really appreciate that. Hopefully it will be over within the next year. Good luck on your health. We are with you

By Frannie Em on 07/02/2008 11:50 pm

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Dona - We are hoping with you….Stay positive.

By Bonnie Oliver on 07/03/2008 1:20 am

SICK…are you a man in disguise…you need to go away,,,,

By theCHEROKEErose on 07/03/2008 9:09 am

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this is to ‘mugggsy peabody’…she/he/whatever needs to get their mind straight about wowowow…i dont know where this ‘person’ is coming from, but it needs to go back there….yikes!!!

By theCHEROKEErose on 07/03/2008 9:12 am

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rose, you may or may not be familiar with the word “lesbian.” a lesbian is a woman who falls in love with women. i am such a person. there are men who fall in love with men, too. we didn’t choose to be this way, we were born into it. all curing us does is suppress and twist love. i hope you feel bad for making mugsy feel bad.

By mary lou s on 07/03/2008 11:31 am

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What?!?!? No you weren’t born into it, you chose it…Get it? Gay? Gay is what I call peeps that claims outlandish crap like you just shot out…Not *SEXUAL* preference. Look Joni-Loves-Joni, you think wut you think, coo…But DON’T overlap and claim anything like BORN WITH. If Jon Doe prefers animals in the bed, that makes him a freak…Not “BORN WITH” response. Quit trying to mainstream your PREFERENCES! PLZ do not expect reasonable followers of logic and intelligence to believe you chose what you did out of salavation of your species…That is not only silly it is obviously gender impossible.

By Chris Brown on 07/04/2008 12:30 am

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Hi Chris, You are entitled to your opinion, but are not welcome to call a member of our community of whom many of us (women 40+) are very fond, a freak. And, if you are going to attack her, I would consider that you may be vulnerable to counter-attack because of a very poor use of the English language that makes you look, not only ill mannered, but ignorant.

By K O on 07/04/2008 10:47 am

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Dear Jon Doe (Chris),

I am sorry to hear about the your problem with animals.

hope you get better, real soon.

By Deni G on 07/05/2008 7:44 pm

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Deni G—Bless you and your retort to Chris. I burst out laughing for the first time on this thread.

By kermie b on 07/06/2008 4:09 am

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I am from the United States of America, where I am a citizen, and I intend to remain here, with all rights and privileges, including free speech, Ms. Rose.

By Mugsy Peabody on 07/03/2008 12:37 pm

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m.p….since i dont believe in hard feelings, i apologize…was having a bad moment because i just finished reading ALL of the things said on the women veteran forum that did NOT belong/were not relevant to the subject…as i mentioned before, my husband, i, and our daughter have all been in the army…he was in the vietnam mess, i was lucky enough to be stationed in germany in the late 1970’s where i met him, and our daughter was born, and our daughter served in kuwait/iraq….i do not care if you are ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’ or martian…i care that our service men and women are shown the utmost respect because they are defending ALL of our RIGHTS to be whatever we want…i have seen some of the looks that people gave my daughter when walking in her army uniform through a SEARS store in wyoming, and i actually wanted to knock them up alongside the head and remind them that SHE was defending their rights to be crappy!!!

By theCHEROKEErose on 07/03/2008 1:32 pm

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Rose, I am (as I suspect all of us are) eternally grateful for your service and your sacrifice for our country. I am a direct descendent through my mother’s side of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, who is responsible for the first written constitution in the history of the world, as well as the right of religious freedom in the new world. We have not belonged to the Daughters of the American Revolution since my mother and grandmother resigned when the DAR refused to allow Marion Anderson to sing at Constitution Hall in the 1940s. The disrespect (in fact utter contempt) I have is for those who for their own purposes abuse that sacrifice of your family and other good people to serve their own selfish political and economic ends, rather than the common good of the American people. And I, too, am sorry when we scrap with each other, rather than find a way to put a stop to that risking of our kids behind their ignorant, arrogant, and greedy abuse of power. All best to you and your family personally. MP

By Mugsy Peabody on 07/03/2008 3:57 pm