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Women In The Military - Online Essays

Women In The Military

For hundreds of years women have been discouraged, and even denied, from serving their country. Since the time of the Revolutionary War, almost two million women veterans have voluntarily served their country in the Armed Forces, from doing laundry to fighting in combat. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women disguised themselves as men and fought side-by-side with male soldiers. During World War I, 33,000 women served and during World War II almost 500,000 served. During the time of the Korean War, 120,000 women were serving in the military and 7,000 women were deployed to Viet Nam. When Desert Storm hit over 40,000 women were deployed and even more have deployed ...

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Captain Nathan Thayer. Deborah served for three years during which she was wounded twice, once she was cut on the head by a sword and a few months later she was shot through the shoulder. Her identity was not discovered until later when she developed brain fever, a common ailment at that time among the ...

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Added: 3/23/2011 08:49:02 PM
Submitted By: Bobzooka14
Category: Women's Issues
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