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Introduce legislation probably this week to overturn it. >> there are some other surviving women from this era, right? >> there is a little over 100 that remain living. 38 of them actually died in the line of duty while they were, you know, doing their job flying in all these amazing different circumstances. >> but they weren't considered at the time in the military until 1977. >> 1977 they were given the congressional gold medal in 1979. everybody agrees that they should have be considered active duty. we righted that wrong in 1977. now this legal loophole has the army saying they can't be in...

Introduce legislation probably this week to overturn it. >> there are some other surviving women from this era, right? >> there is a little over 100 that remain living. 38 of them actually died in the line of duty while they were, you know, doing their job flying in all these amazing different circumstances. >> but they weren't considered at the time in the military until 1977. >> 1977 they were given the congressional gold medal in 1979. everybody agrees that they should have be considered active duty. we righted that wrong in 1977. now this legal loophole has the army saying they can't be in...

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