The Changing Role of Women in the Military: Viet Nam to Gulf War and Beyond

In commemoration
of Veterans Day on November 11, the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons will
be holding a program the following day on “The Changing Role of Women in the

Military: Viet Nam to Gulf War and Beyond.”

The meeting, which
is free and open to the public, takes place on Tuesday, November 12, 7 p.m. at
the Hampton Bays Public Library, 52 Ponquogue Avenue, with refreshments served
beforehand at 6:45 p.m.

Speakers
include LWV Board member and Southampton resident Susan Wilson, who will
give a brief history of the role of women in the military and share some of her
experiences as a non-deployed Navy veteran of the Viet Nam War. She will be
followed by Susan Soto, the newly-appointed Commander of VFW Post 7009 in
Southampton, who will speak of her experiences as a deployed veteran of
Operation Desert Shield/Storm, more commonly known as the Gulf War.

Further
information is available from the League at 631-324-4637 or the Hampton Bays
Library at 728-6241.