The Woman Behind the Only National Memorial for Female Vets
Thirty years after being sent to Vietnam without weapons training, Wilma Vaught started collecting stories of women's military history.
This Empowering Memorial Honors the Legacies of Military Women
WATCH: The Women In Military Service For America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is the only major national memorial honoring U.S. servicewomen.
By Nina Strochlic
PUBLISHED May 25, 2017
Major Wilma Vaught arrived in Saigon in the midst of the Vietnam War. It was October 1968, and the 38-year-old was there to work on audits and cost savings. The U.S. Air Force put her up in a hotel three blocks from the president’s palace, in a room being vacated by a female intelligence officer who left her an AK-47 and handgun secretly stashed in the bureau drawer.
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