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US Army female soldier with the 2-17 Field Artillery Regiment, Private Cherish Cooper from Steamville, Texas, covers colleagues setting up a checkpoint in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, 25 October 2004. Nineteen-year-old Cooper, who goes out on deadly missions in the badlands of the Sunni Muslim triangle, has hunted down snipers in Ramadi and tangled with insurgents on the perimeter of Fallujah.
PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images

More women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan than in any other war, and yet these deaths are not generating much public reaction. Midmorning examines the public perception of women in the military and what it means that news of female fatalities in Iraq no longer shocks the public.

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US Army female soldier
US Army female soldier with the 2-17 Field Artillery Regiment, Private Cherish Cooper from Steamville, Texas, covers colleagues setting up a checkpoint in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, 25 October 2004. Nineteen-year-old Cooper, who goes out on deadly missions in the badlands of the Sunni Muslim triangle, has hunted down snipers in Ramadi and tangled with insurgents on the perimeter of Fallujah.
PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images