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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 415 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States Postal Service 

should issue a commemorative postage stamp series honoring women 

veterans of the Armed Forces and that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory 

Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that such a 

stamp series be issued. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 7, 2019 

Mr. SCHUMER (for Ms. WARREN (for herself, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Ms. 

MCSALLY, Mr. TESTER, Ms. HARRIS, Mr. SULLIVAN, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, 

Ms. HASSAN, and Mrs. CAPITO)) submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States 

Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage 

stamp series honoring women veterans of the Armed 

Forces and that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee 

should recommend to the Postmaster General that such 

a stamp series be issued. 

Whereas there are approximately 2,000,000 women veterans 

of the Armed Forces living in the United States, who 

have served the United States with honor and distinction, 

yet the service of those women is often forgotten and they 

become ‘‘invisible veterans’’; 


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Whereas women veterans of the Armed Forces have made invaluable contributions to the United States since the 

American Revolution; 

Whereas Deborah Sampson of Massachusetts and Margaret 

Corbin of New York served during the American Revolution and were wounded in combat, and Congress granted 

pensions to both pioneering women for their service; 

Whereas Dr. Mary Edwards Walker served as a surgeon during the American Civil War and is the only woman to 

have been awarded the Medal of Honor; 

Whereas Cathay Williams, who was born a slave, enlisted in 

the Regular Army disguised as a man and served in the 

American West for 3 years; 

Whereas Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee, a nurse in the Navy who 

served during World War I, was the first woman to receive the Navy Cross; 

Whereas Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams Earley, Women’s 

Army Corps, commanded the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion during World War II, which was the 

only all-African-American unit of the Women’s Army 

Corps to serve overseas during that war; 

Whereas Hazel Lee, the first Asian-American woman to become a pilot in the Armed Forces, flew with the Women 

Airforce Service Pilots during World War II; 

Whereas Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson enlisted in the 

Army as a private during World War II as part of an effort to use women as military professionals, continued to 

serve after the war, was appointed by President Dwight 

D. Eisenhower as Director of the Women’s Army Corps 

in 1957 and reappointed by President John F. Kennedy 

in 1961, was awarded the Legion of Merit for her work 


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to successfully integrate Black women into the Women’s 

Army Corps, increased the strength of the Women’s 

Army Corps by nearly 25 percent, ensured that the Army 

opened 26 new military occupational specialties for active 

duty enlisted women and 50 such specialties for women 

reservists, and successfully fought for legislation to approve active duty credit for service in the Women’s Army 

Auxiliary Corps, the precursor to the Women’s Army 

Corps, to correct inequities for reserve officers of the 

Women’s Army Corps; 

Whereas Margaret Zane Fleming and her 12 colleagues with 

the 1st Mobile Army Surgical Hospital who landed at Inchon, Korea, on September 15, 1950, and the many other 

nurses, physical therapists, pharmacists, and other 

women who saved lives were on the front lines of not only 

the Korean War but also of medical trauma care; 

Whereas 8 women gave their lives while serving in the Armed 

Forces in Vietnam, including First Lieutenant Sharon 

Ann Lane, Second Lieutenant Pamela Dorothy Donovan, 

Lieutenant Colonel Annie Ruth Graham, Captain Mary 

Therese Klinker, Second Lieutenant Carol Ann Elizabeth 

Drazba, Second Lieutenant Elizabeth Ann Jones, Captain Eleanor Grace Alexander, and First Lieutenant 

Hedwig Diane Orlowski; 

Whereas Specialist Lori Piestewa, a member of the Hopi 

Tribe, was the first Native-American woman in history to 

die in combat while serving in the Armed Forces and the 

first woman member of the Armed Forces killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom; 

Whereas First Lieutenant Ashley White and Captain Jennifer 

Moreno, both soldiers and members of the Cultural Support Teams of the Army, gave their lives for the United 


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States while serving in action alongside the special operations forces they supported in Afghanistan; 

Whereas United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer 

Shannon Kent, cryptologic technician, wife, and mother, 

was killed in action in Manbij, Syria; 

Whereas all women who have served in the Armed Forces 

throughout our Nation’s history, whether at the front, in 

support positions behind the lines, or here at home have 

marked a trail of honor for those who will follow them; 

and 

Whereas these women warriors and millions of others should 

be honored for their service and recognized for their important contributions to the United States: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that— 

2 (1) the United States Postal Service should 

3 issue a commemorative postage stamp series hon4 oring women veterans of the Armed Forces; and 

5 (2) the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee 

6 should recommend to the Postmaster General that 

7 such a stamp series be issued. 

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