Politics | 07/01/2008 11:12 am

Fallen Patriots: A wowOwow Salute to 110 Fallen Female Soldiers

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

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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 salute all of the women who so selflessly wake up every morning in a land so far away. Away from their children. Away from their husband. Away from their families. Years ago we had no you-tube so we were limited as to what our women were going through in the war. Well, not any more.

Below is a 20/20 interview. See what these, and other soldiers themselves are saying about their experience in the war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez9fFRuJB-4&feature=related

By Jeanette Foresta on 07/04/2008 7:43 am

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I spent some time with my son after he returned from Iraq (we lived in different states). He showed me a video that was prepared for one of the first women killed in this war that he had served with at Camp Bucca in Iraq. I just sobbed while watching it and I can’t look at these pictures. I don’t want anyone else killed in this horrible war…woman or man. My thanks to you wowowow for this tribute.

By Snowbird Wannabe on 07/04/2008 10:53 am

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Every one of these women has been lost to a family, a circle of friends, a community. I grieve for their loved ones and for a nation whose potential will be less fulfilled without them. They lost their lives in a war that should never have happened, and each woman should be remembered, not only for fighting and dying in this war, but for serving her country. They are the precious daughters, sisters, mothers, wives, girlfriends, partners and friends of those who still long for their presence. Rest in peace, soldiers. Rest in peace.

By Maurine H on 07/04/2008 12:37 pm

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I can’t do it. I wanted to read the name of you all. I wanted to look in the eyes of all of you. But I cannot tonight, I cry everyday about how our most precious treasure is being wasted by our mad, evil leaders. I can see the eyes of my mother, my sister, my daughters and my friends in your faces. May God bless and keep each and every one of you, may you all be remember as your soul goes wherever we go after we have left this mortal life. I so appreciate the ultimate Gift you have give us all and honor. And I pray some day we have leadership worthily of such fine people as those who serve us all.

By RoseMerry Hoffman on 07/04/2008 9:08 pm

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Thanks for this, RoseMerry.

By Mugsy Peabody on 07/05/2008 1:12 am

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Death is never a good thing, but we know what we are getting ourselves into. I’ve been to Afgansistan and I will be going to Iraq… In fact I asked to go. I love my county and the freedoms we have and I will do anything to keep those freedoms and our country safe! And to be frank anybody who can’t understand that is insane. :) My husband is also in the service and he knows what I’m figting for- He’s doing it too. Yes he wishes I didn’t have to go, but freedom is NOT free! I’ve lost A LOT of friends and it sucks, but they didn’t die in vain- I’m proud of them!! And I would gladly do the same if it ment I was saving someone else or protecting our freedom. If anybody feels as if this is crazy or whatever… I have nothing to say on that, but be ashamed- they did it for you!

By Sheana Davis on 07/05/2008 7:36 am

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I saw this line today in a post, on another blog, about a vet who committed suicide:

“There’s nothing wrong with today’s veterans. There’s something wrong with WAR.”

By Deni G on 07/05/2008 8:31 pm

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Sheana—I was in another misbegotten war in Asian jungles way back probably before you were born so I know of what you speak—Be proud soldier and don’t let anyone tell you differently. We survived but too many of our friends didn’t—and that’s the most painful thing of all—it still hurts. It always will. But if we remember them then they never die—they are still there in our hearts and when we pass on if we leave a testament ot them then they never will die. In War and remembrance, Herman Wouk’s book of WW2 he writes movingly and lists the names of the men of Torpedo 8 squadron form the USS Horrnet who died in the attack on the Japanese carriers at the battle of Midway; Here are their names lest we forget: * Lt. Commander John C. Waldron * Lt. Raymond A. Moore * Lt. James C. Owens, Jr. * Lt.(jg) George M. Campbell * Lt.(jg) John P. Gray * Lt.(jg) Jeff D. Woodson * Ens. William W. Abercrombie * Ens. William W. Creamer * Ens. Harold J. Ellison * Ens. William R. Evans * Ens. Henry R. Kenyon * Ens. Ulvert M. Moore * Ens. Grant W. Teats * Robert B. Miles, Aviation Pilot 1c * Horace F. Dobbs, Chief Radioman * Amelio Maffei, Radioman 1 * Tom H. Pettry, Radioman 1 * Otway D. Creasy, Jr. Radioman 2 * Ross H. Bibb, Jr., Radioman 2 * Darwin L. Clark, Radioman 2 * Ronald J. Fisher, Radioman 2 * Hollis Martin, Radioman 2 * Bernerd P. Phelps Radioman 2 * As well L. Picou, Seaman 2 * Francis S. Polston, Seaman 2 * Max A. Calkins, Radioman 3 * George A. Field, Radioman 3 * Robert K. Huntington, Radioman 3 * William F. Sawhill, Radioman 3 In Washington DC are the list of 58125 men and women who died in Vietnam—402 of them were Army medics: I was an Army medic. I do not forget them an my friends who died there. They still are with me.They always will be.

By Frank Peterson on 07/06/2008 2:27 pm