SPC Lori Ann Piestewa (December 14, 1979-March 23, 2003) was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps soldier killed during the same Iraqi Army attack in which her friend Jessica Lynch was injured. A member of the Hopi tribe, Piestewa was the first woman killed in the 2003 Iraq war and is the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving with the U.S. military. Wikipedia
T he high desert country around Tuba City, Arizona, where Lori Piestewa grew up, looks a lot like southern Iraq. Vast, open stretches dominate the barren landscape, punctuated now and then by red sandstone mesas. As a child, Lori spent weekends racing h www.oshadavidson.com/Piestewa.htm
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But nobody wanted to hear the sadder story of her friend and tentmate Private Lori Piestewa, who died in combat. www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,933586,00.html
Piestewa responded that she was sticking with her mission and drove back toward the column's rear and into the chaotic battle. According to Lynch, Piestewa navigated through gunfire and debris, circling around twice to help crippled vehicles before a roc www.beliefnet.com/story/137/story_13709_1.html
Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa made history as she gave 'the last measure of devotion' to her country. A young, twenty-three-old Hopi raised on a Navajo reservation, she was the first American servicewoman to be killed in action in the Iraq war, and the first N www.8thwood.com/lori_ann_piestewa.htm
Lori never shied away from doing what was difficult. "She was really strong-willed," says her brother Adam. "We were always telling her not to do things, and she'd just go ahead and do them." The boys of Tuba City learned that if they were going to get www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6085435/the_forgotten...
