The Military Women’s Memorial Register is the Nation’s only database of its kind dedicated to preserving the stories of every woman who has served—ensuring their service is visible, honored, and permanently woven into America’s history. Your support safeguards this one-of-a-kind national treasure, fuels our National Registration Campaign, strengthens our Adopt A Woman Veteran Project, and ensures that every woman is recognized by name, honored for her service and remembered through her story at this major national memorial – her Memorial. – for all time.

Today, the Register contains more than 331,000 stories of service—just 10% of the more than 3 million women who have served. That means 90% of their legacies remain unrecorded—and with every passing day, another story, another contribution, another vital piece of our history is at risk of being lost forever. 

In tribute to our 10 Patriot Leadership Award recipients—the only 10 women to have achieved 4-star rank out of the 3 million who have served, a milestone once prohibited by law and thought impossible—our goal is 10 gifts of $10,000, one in honor of each 4-star. With your gift, we will preserve their stories, the stories of those who served alongside them, and the stories of those who will one day stand on their shoulders—future leaders who too may one day wear 4 stars, inspired by the legacies of service they discovered at the Military Women’s Memorial. 

The Military Women’s Memorial Collection – a world-class, one-of-a-kind collection – is the world’s largest and the Nation’s only repository dedicated to preserving the artifacts and personal histories of women who have served in and with America’s Armed Forces. Formally established in 1994, the Collection now holds more than 8,000 individual donations—from uniforms, medals, and photographs to diaries, oral histories, and film footage—capturing women’s service.

Used by researchers, authors, and scholars, the artifacts bring to life and enrich the story of service beyond words alone. Recent additions include the uniform of retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead a U.S. military service and a recipient of the Military Women’s Memorial 2025 Patriot Leadership Award, which proudly will be displayed at the Memorial in late October.

Your support ensures these treasures are preserved, shared and enhanced—through museum quality display cases and equipment, climate-controlled storage, digitization projects, and preservation supplies—so that the rich legacy of women’s service endures for generations to come.

They answered the call when their country needed them most—America’s women of past generations who stepped forward in times of war. Despite limited opportunities, they put on the uniform, served with courage and conviction, and proved that women’s contributions are indispensable to our Nation’s defense.

When the war ended, many quietly set aside their uniforms, yet their spirit of service lived on. As citizens, leaders, and trailblazers, they carried forward the same dedication that defined their time in uniform—shaping not only the outcome of a war, but the future of a Nation.

Today, we honor them as Military Women’s Memorial Living Legends—for their service, sacrifice, and the countless ways they continued to serve long after. Their legacy of courage and commitment reminds us all what it means to serve something greater than oneself.

Join us in honoring these extraordinary women before time runs out. By supporting the Living Legend Program, you ensure these women patriots know their service mattered then, it matters now, and it will continue to inspire America’s future.

Since 1997, the Military Women’s Memorial has stood as a powerful testament to the resilience and courage of women who have served in and alongside our Armed Forces.

It is a place where their stories are preserved, celebrated, and shared for generations to come. The Memorial is dedicated to amplifying women’s voices and ensuring their legacy endures.

But the Memorial is not only about the past—it is also about shaping the future. It inspires young people to dream boldly, to consider paths of service, and to follow in the footsteps of courageous women who came before them.

We invite you to join us in honoring their legacy while helping to build what comes next.

Your gift fuels the future of the Memorial’s Education Center and Exhibit Gallery—transforming our spaces to tell the story of women’s service and sacrifice with the dignity, recognition, and gratitude they so profoundly deserve. It not only preserves the past but ensures the future—bringing women’s stories to life through new and refreshed exhibits, interactive experiences, and new ways for visitors to learn from and be inspired by their service.

Thank you for supporting our future.

During a recent Military Women’s Memorial event, author Lena Andrews shared how she first discovered the story of a remarkable military woman—tucked away in a single footnote. One story nearly lost to history.

For far too long, that’s how women’s service has been treated—as a footnote.

For 28 years at the Military Women’s Memorial, we have been steadfast in our mission to bring women’s service out of the shadows—to give voice and visibility to women who serve our nation. Thanks to supporters like you, these stories of service are illuminated. Celebrated. Not footnotes—but foundational chapters in America’s history.

Because of you, their stories now live on at the Memorial, proudly preserved —not hidden. Every name and story of service added to our National Register is one more woman pulled from the margins of history—and given her rightful place at the center of it.

As we celebrate the 28th Anniversary of the Military Women’s Memorial on October 18, join us in transforming remembrance into action. Awareness into acknowledgment. Footnotes into headlines. With your support, women who serve are not a footnote. We are the force.

Together, let's make sure that women’s service and contributions are never just a footnote.