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Category: Role Models
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Objectified, Sexualized and “Miss Represented”
Besides the certainty of taxes and death, we know sex sells. Americans are bombarded with images of women to sell everything from beer to cars. Meanwhile, young women and men searching for…
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Honored Role (part 22): Valencia de la Vega — Brains in a Bikini
This is the 22nd installment in the Honored Role Series. Fed up with the constant media attention and hyper-promotion of tissue-thin fashion models and beauty queens with little between the ears, Valencia…
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Honored Role (part 21): Col. (ret.) Debra Lewis — Actions Matter Most
This is the 21st installment in the Honored Role Series. Not one to rest idly, less than six months after retiring from the Army, Colonel Debra Lewis is taking action on another…
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Honored Role (part 20): Capt. Jana Fajardo – New Starts
This is the 20th installment in the Honored Role Series. Jana Fajardo grew up wanting to serve in the military, despite the fact that less than two percent of Americans do so.…
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Honored Role (part 19): Lt. Col. (ret.) Angela Lungu – A Leap into the Unknown
This is the 19th installment in the Honored Role Series. Like many, Angela Maria Lungu joined the Army to earn a college degree and did not anticipate serving past her initial five-year…
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Honored Role (part 18): 2nd Lt. Taneshina Wright – Body & Mind
This is the 18th installment in the Honored Role Series. Saturday’s graduation at West Point will mark 30 years since the first women joined “the long gray line” of graduates of the…
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Honored Role (part 17): Maj. Candice O’Brien – One Step at Time
This is the 17th installment in the Honored Role Series. In Kindergarten Candice O’Brien started running the 1/8th of a mile loop around her elementary school in Muscatine, Iowa. Each time she…
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Honored Role (part 16): Col. (ret.) Crissy Gayagas – In Balance
This is the 16th installment in the Honored Role Series. More than a word of welcome or parting, “Aloha”, in the Hawaiian language means affection, love, peace, compassion and mercy. Often described…