71st US Servicewoman Killed in Iraq, 470 Servicewomen Wounded

[JPZenger]

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-sunday1-amar17,0,4012644.story
from the Allentown PA Morning Call

Ashly "Moyer ... died March 3 when insurgents detonated a bomb that engulfed her armored patrol vehicle in flames. She was the 71st female service member killed in Iraq since the war began four years ago. Eleven have died since Operation Enduring Freedom began in Afghanistan in 2001.

Combined, 470 women have been wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the vast majority in Iraq.

''This war has simply been staggering in the number of women killed in such a short time,'' said Judith Matteson, director of the Army Women's Museum in Richmond, Va.

While hundreds of women lost their lives in both World Wars I and II, almost all died in accidents and from pandemics, Matteson said. Only 16 women were killed by enemy fire in the Second World War. Fourteen were killed in the Korean War. In Vietnam, enemy fire killed one woman. And in the Persian Gulf War, 16 women were killed, mostly in accidents, she said."

[Captain Hilts]

1. That's 'killed'. nt

[genie_weenie]

2. The Regime will

spin this as empowering women, in the military.

Sad.