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Home from the military: a third of female veterans are women of color. Here are three of their stories.
WHEN KRISTINA MCCAULEY LOOKS BACK on her time in boot camp, one scene sticks out: she's standing in the sun as blood flows down her wrist, hoping no one will notice her among the rows of trainees chanting and brandishing bayonets.
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Thinking back, she's not sure why she grabbed her weapon the wrong way during that drill. But when she saw that the bayonet on her rifle had sliced cleanly across her hand, she knew calling for help would only invite her drill sergeants to make her life more miserable.
"I was just standing out there in the heat of the day and bleeding and trying to be quiet about it," she recalled later in an ...
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