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The women of the record: service positive, decoration negative

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TESTED WHOLE, AT THE SAME STRENGTH AS THE MEN

Women of this ground served in the Second World War and lie in this town's cemeteries under VA markers; no decorated woman of this town was reached in any carrier searched, and no nurse of this town was named by any. Elizabeth Sagi — U.S. Army, Second World War (b. 27 November 1921, d. 9 June 2016), resting in Porter Rea Cemetery: service proven at VA-file strength; no unit, rank, or decoration stated in the record as reached. Helen C. Vosburgh — U.S. Army, Second World War, Sergeant First Class (b. 11 February 1919, d. 19 February 2007), resting in West Lawn Cemetery; in the same ground in the same file, Ralph Edward Vosburgh, U.S. Navy, MMS3, Second World War — the pair printed as this section's facts, the marriage an inference from surname, cemetery, and dates and labelled as one. Her SFC rank is a career fact, not a valor decoration, and none is recorded for her. The organised women's presence of the Civil War generation stands at county strength: Howard records a Women's Relief Corps auxiliary actively assisting each county GAR post — this town's post among them by the county sentence, its own roster unreached (the veterans file carries the test). Checked and excluded by name: the county veterans list's WAC entry (Sharon McCormack, 1964–1966) is attributed there to Penn Township and Mishawaka; she is not claimed for this town, and neither is the same list's Madison Township woman. The settler that could reopen this whole file at a stroke is named in the note: the county library's Military Service Notes index, 1941–1979, searched at name level — a single Tribune item ("awarded the Bronze Star") for a named Liberty man or woman would reopen the decoration record for that person and no one else.

VA burial file as transcribed (Interment.net, VA data of 16 Dec. 2022); Howard (1907), county WRC passage; county veterans list (pointer strength, exclusions as stated).

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Source: The women of the record: service positive, decoration negative, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/war-heroes/women-of-the-record-service-positive-decoration-negative/