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March is Women’s History Month. MAMF (Museum of the American Military Family) has chosen to honor Women’s History Month by featuring Jeannette Rankin. 

Jeannette Rankin was the first woman ever elected to Congress in 1916 and was from Montana. That was four years before women received the right to vote. She is represented in the National Statuary Hall in the US Capital as one of Montana’s two contributions to the Statuary Hall. As the only woman ever sent to Congress by Montana, the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor (she was a lifelong pacifist), a dedicated suffragist, and the member of Congress who introduced legislation that later became the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote, she weathered many storms and was most certainly a pioneer in her own right. 

The quote in the image is from Elizabeth Edwards, and speaks to the way that women persevere and persist, regardless of the storms we face.

Every woman serving in the military, and every military wife, is familiar with the challenges that come with military service. The words of Elizabeth Edwards perfectly describe the dignity with which women associated with military service face those challenges.

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