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please welcome sergeant major donna lowery. [applause] donna: good afternoon, everybody. i'm so excited about being here because i'm going to tell you about a fantastic group of women that, in this country have been overlooked until this time. when i speak of the vietnam war, i am talking about a time in our country when women were segregated. for the army, we had the army nurse corps and the women's army corps. for the air force we had the women's air force, the navy, we had the navy women. and the marines, we had the marine women. each of our groups was led by a colonel there was only one director for each of the women's corps, and that's the woman who made the decisions for those of us who served under them. later on, we were in this mint-green uniform with a beret. another time she was shopping at sex fifth avenue and i asked her where we got our drill sergeant cap. and she said to me, well, first sergeant, she said there is this fascinating display, and i saw this. it looks like a safari had. -- hat. and so, it is a wide brim, it comes with mosquito netting, you can