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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 11:51 PM
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Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq
Tammy Duckworth wrote the Forward to this book. Author in talking about the women she contacted related that one woman wouldn't put her story in the book because she was a staunch conservative and the Congress at the time was debating women in combat and she didn't want to make her "Commander in Chief" look bad. Yeah right. But for those interested in the stories of how this war has no front line and whether Repukes like it or not, women are in combat in Iraq, killing, dying, bleeding, losing limbs and being seriously wounded, and coming home with PTSD. They are serving as bravely as any man there. I read first chapter tonight about 3 women Marines serving along side in combat patrols raiding Iraqi houses so they could search the women and female children. They were in combat right along side the guys and one struggled with killing a man.

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In Iraq, the front line is everywhere...and everywhere in Iraq, women in the U.S. military fight. More than 155,000 of them have served in Iraq since 2003--four times the number of women sent to Desert Storm in 1991--and more than 430 have been wounded and over 70 killed, almost twice the number of U.S. military women killed in action in Korea, Vietnam, and Desert Storm combined. Band of Sisters presents twelve amazing and often heart-wrenching stories of American women in the frontlines including America's first female pilot to be shot down and survive, the U.S. military's first black female combat pilot, a 21-year-old turret gunner defending a convoy, two military policewomen in a firefight, a nurse struggling to save lives, including her own and more.



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