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In June 2004, [First Lt. Dawn Halfaker] became the newest soldier to start down a path almost unknown in the United States: woman as combat amputee.
Her body had been maimed by war. She lay unconscious at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, her parents at her bedside and her future suddenly unsure. A rocket-propelled grenade had exploded in her Humvee, ravaging her arm and shoulder.
She was part of a new generation of women who have lost pieces of themselves in war, experiencing the same physical trauma and psychological anguish as their male counterparts. But for female combat amputees has come something else: a quiet sense of wonder about how the public views them and how they will reconcile themselves.
The Washington Post's article In Sports, a Sisterhood, as well as the photos of women in these stories, titled Female Soldiers Linked by Loss.
