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Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, Raven-42, & the Silver Star (Page 2)
Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester is the first female Soldier who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom to receive the Silver Star.
By Martin Morgan (RSS)
July 03, 2013
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I think about it every day—the actions and the play-by-play of how it happened. The pictures that are stuck in my mind about what I saw that day. My fellow soldiers lying there bleeding, and me trying to give them aid and get them to the hospital— medevac’ed out on a helicopter.
Although 2005 was firmly situated in an era that seemed at times heavily characterized by shallow self-absorption and narcissism, Sgt. Hester the shoe-store-manager-turned-decorated-war-hero still thought of herself as being a member of a team. Her devotion to duty and devotion to comrades might make you recall the closing line of the 1954 feature film The Bridges at Toko-Ri. In that line, Rear-Admiral George Tarrant (played by Fredric March) has just been informed of the loss of Lt. Harry Brubaker (played by William Holden) and he asks, "Where do we get such men?" The example of Leigh Ann Hester might inspire a modernized version of that quote: “where do we get such women?”
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