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Soyuzanky-Veterans (from left): Dorothy Budacki and Anna Krawczuk with Mary Smolley Scott at the Ukrainian American Veterans Convention The 20th century brought new wars and con flicts and with those events came a full recognition of women in the US military. Today, women serving in the military are socially accepted, thanks in part to the vision and courage of their predecessors, the women combatants of 1861-1865. Yet as we face the first war of 21st century, modem women soldiers are still barred from direct combat, even though 15% of all military commissioned officers, up to and including the rank of general, are female. Many are graduates of West Point (US Army) and of the Air Force, Coast Guard or Navy Academies. While still denied direct combat duty and barred from serving on submarines, American women now serve side by side with men in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, National Guard and Coast Guard. Among the women who have served with honor and distinction in America’s military are women of Ukrainian American heritage. Flight nurse Evelyn Kowalchuk who served in the US Army Air Corps 37 years ago, was recently honored by President George W. Bush in a D-Day Memorial dedication at Bedford, Virginia. (For additional information on this, see The Ukrainian Weekly, July 22, 2001 issue). Bronze star recipient Captain Millie K. Decyk of the US Army Nurse Corps served on active duty in Europe during World War II and was in charge of the Psychiatric Section in United Kingdom Hospital in Sudbury, Der byshire. Some women veterans are present or former members of the UNWLA as well as members of Ukrainian Americans Veterans, which was founded in 1948. Among them is Dorothy Sudomir Budacki (for mer member of UNWLA Branch 12, currently UN WLA member-at-large) who served in the US Navy during WWII and is former National President of WAVE Veterans. Oksana Skypakewych Xenos, Lt. Col. US Army Retired, is currently serving as UN WLA Parliamentarian. Anna Osinska Krawczuk, who served in the US Army in the post occupation era in Germany, is a member of UNWLA Branch 86 and Branch 98. Both Dorothy Budacki and Anna Krawczuk currently serve on the National Board of Ukrainian American Veterans. Both are active in seek ing out information about other Ukrainian-American women who have served in the US military or are presently on active duty. As veterans, the women described here feel a strong connection to the men and women in the US military who are currently serving their country in a war against terrorism. Our prayers are with them and with the families of the thousands who perished on September 11, 2001 - at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and in the high-jacked plane that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania because American heroes refused to be passive victims and unwilling partici pants in further destruction intended by the terrorists. We pray, as well, for President George W. Bush and for those who counsel him in the difficult decisions that are being made at this time. God Bless America. ♦Author’s note: Many servicewomen are not yet included in the Memo rial Register. If you would like to register or know of a servicewoman who should be registered, please contact the Women’s Memorial at wimsa@aol.com or Anna Krawczuk at uav.reg@worldnet.att.net Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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