Lori Piestewa, the First Female Soldier to Die in the Iraq War – Soldier of Fortune Magazine
Lori Piestewa 2003: First American Indian woman to die in combat on foreign soil From Army.Mil, American Indians in the Army One Sunday morning, Percy Piestewa received a call from her daughter Lori, a Soldier with the 507th Maintenance Company stationed on Fort Bliss. “Mom, we’re deploying tomorrow,” Lori said. It was the day after the Hopi Powamu, or Bean Dance Ceremony, in which the Hopi people pray for an abundance of water, food, good weather and peace in the coming year. Percy’s husband Terry had been preparing for weeks. He’d run himself ragged with last-minute details in the...
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