Women & Military

<p>We weren't always welcomed home from the war. But we were good at what we did and the patients knew we mattered. </p>

<p>She was “one of the most active and most reliable of the many secret woman agents of the Confederacy.”</p>

<p><span class="deck">The Women Airforce Service Pilots seemed strange and exotic to World War II America. In fact, not even the military could quite fiqure out what to do with them.</span></p>

<p>For the first time in U.S. history, women are fighting alongside their male their male counterparts. So far, 110 have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt">America’s first female soldiers were Signal Corps telephone operators who made sure that critical messages got through, often while threatened by artillery fire.</p>

<p>After her death, Dickey Chapelle’s editor at <em>National Geographic </em>paid tribute to the gutsy war correspondent he knew.</p>