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(AP) Shoshana Johnson survived gunshot wounds to both legs and 22 days as a prisoner of war in Iraq. Life wasn't so easy when she came home, either. In a new book out this week, the 37-year-old single mother describes mental health problems related to her captivity and tells how it felt to play second fiddle in the media to fellow POW Jessica Lynch, who was captured in the same ambush. "It was kind of hurtful," the former Army cook said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "If I'd been a petite, cutesy thing, it would've been different."

During a recent Democratic debate, both Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama indicated that all female citizens should register for the Selective Service. Neither candidate was as ridiculous as former Sen. Mike Gravel, who said, when it comes to men and women being drafted, "What's the difference?" The attitude the Democrats have on this issue has already caused harm to the military. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, has been watching the feminization of military-personnel policy for decades. She explains that "gender-integrated basic training is based on the unrealistic assumption that men and women are interchangeable in...

Tribute to a Hopi Warrior By David Yeagley “Hoka hey!” cried the Sioux in 1876, “It’s a good day to die.” Maybe the Hopi Indians can say the same thing today, in 2003. PFC Lori Piestewa, a Hopi Indian woman from Tuba City, Arizona, was killed in action in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Many reports call attention to the fact that she was the first woman soldier killed in the Iraqi conflict, and that she was one of the few Indian women in United States military service. And for whom was 22-year-old Pfc. Piestewa fighting? The people of Iraq, the people...

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2005 – ABC's hit TV program "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" this weekend will feature the show's design team building and furnishing a new home for the family of a soldier killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The family of Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a soldier who died during the opening days of the Iraqi war, recently took ownership of a new $500,000 house north of Flagstaff, Ariz., that resulted from the effort. A team from the Extreme Makeover program designed the sprawling home and furnished it in a southwestern motif. A two-hour season finale, to air May 22,...

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<p>WASHINGTON - The Army should release details from its investigation into Spc. Lori Piestewa's treatment and death in the hours after her capture by Iraqis nearly a year ago, said the president of a national group that opposes women in combat.</p>

Squaw no alternative for Piestewa Peak in Arizona Leaders warn Arizona not to regress to racist insult Posted: January 23, 2004 - 3:40pm EST by: Brenda Norrell / Correspondent / Indian Country Today PHOENIX - Arizona Indian leaders warned Arizona legislators from the floor of the House of Representatives that changing the name of Piestewa Peak back to Squaw Peak would cripple tribal and state relationships, returning them to conditions of territorial days. "The term is degrading and racist," said Fort Mojave Chairperson Nora McDowell, among Arizona Indian leaders speaking on Indian Nations and Tribes Legislative Day. McDowell refused...

NEW YORK - Graphic video footage of a badly injured Jessica Lynch and Lori Piestewa, who may have died shortly afterward, was taken by Iraqi state television following the ambush of the soldiers' Army convoy, NBC reported Tuesday night. The video, aired on "NBC Nightly News," shows the two Army privates at the hospital where they were taken following the March 23 ambush of the 507th Maintenance Co. The tape was never aired in Iraq, NBC reported. Piestewa, her face swollen and bruised and her head loosely bandaged, is shown as someone positions her feet, and then her head, for...

<p>WASHINGTON - Army Spc. Lori Piestewa arrived alive but seriously wounded with Pfc. Jessica Lynch at an Iraqi hospital three hours after their vehicle was struck in an ambush by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashed, according to a newspaper report containing Iraqi eyewitness accounts.</p>

<p>Gov. Janet Napolitano said Monday that she regretted the "heavy-handed" action of a top staffer whose arm-twisting phone call contributed to a political firestorm over the renaming of Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak.</p> <p>The governor chastised Deputy Chief of Staff Mario Diaz for calling a high-ranking Phoenix police officer to put pressure on the chairman of the State Board of Geographic Names.</p>

Janet Napolitano, close buddy of Hillary Clinton and the Governor of Arizona is causing a political firestorm in Arizona. She has jumped into the middle of a political correctness issue with a view to making political hay from it. It has long been a bone of contention with the PC crowd that one of the mountains in Central Phoenix is named “Squaw Peak”. Squaw, claim the PC crowd, is a derogatory term for a Native American woman, some even claim it refers to just a certain part of a woman, but that is till in dispute. The PC crowd have...

TUBA CITY, Ariz. (AP) A photo shows Pfcs. Lori Piestewa and Jessica Lynch in February, the day before they were deployed to the Middle East: roommates, good friends, smiling in their Army fatigues. Six weeks later their unit moved into Iraq, where they and several of their fellow soldiers vanished. Piestewa's family on the Navajo Reservation and Lynch's family a continent away in West Virginia were joined in an agonizing wait for word of their fate. On Saturday, Lynch's parents left their home to fly to Germany for a reunion with their rescued daughter. Piestewa's mourned the death of the...

Monday, April 07, 2003 During their tour at Fort Bliss, a sprawling military base on the western tip of Texas, Jessica Lynch and Lori Ann Piestewa had little choice but to spend time together. As logistics and supply specialists, their military duties constantly intertwined. When Private First Class Lynch needed to stock up on toilet paper or shaving kits for deploying troops, she ordered the gear from Private First Class Piestewa, stationed in a nearby warehouse. When they were not at work -- a rarity in the weeks leading up to the Iraqi war -- the pair shared a tiny...