I had the privilege of interviewing 58 women veterans from WWII up to and including Iraq and Afghanistan between 2006 and 2012. It was sparked by a story I listened to of a woman veteran mail clerk who was assaulted by a postal inspector. He had done his white glove inspection and left. She changed […]

Invisibility of Women Veterans Women have been serving our country since its earliest beginnings. During the revolutionary war, Margaret Corbin took over her husband’s gun position and was wounded and disabled for life. Women were not allowed to be in the military back then. During the Civil War women took on men’s names, cut

Military Sexual Trauma is any sexual abuse experienced in the military from sexual harassment, sexual assault, to rape.  It is a personal and sexual boundary violation, which affects the victim emotionally, physically and spiritually. The victim (I will now refer to as a woman) experiences extreme vulnerability, helplessness, shame, humiliation, a breach in her sense 

July 1, 2013 There is a new voice in the world, shining a bright light on the culture of abuse toward women in the U.S. Military. It is mine, Sarah L. Blum, and you are going to be hearing from me often for a while. I am a nurse Vietnam veteran and began this journey in 2006