
Thirty years after being sent to Vietnam without weapons training, Wilma Vaught started collecting stories of women’s military history.
The museum’s 1860s letter from Clara Barton says it all: “From the storm lashed decks of the Mayflower to the present hour, women have stood like a rock for the welfare and glory of the history of our country … and one might well add: unwritten, unrewarded, and unrecognized.”