A Tale of three million women Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs I am a U.S. Army veteran. Every year I feel angst and conflict about Veterans Day. Pride, seated beside angst. This year I thought it would be different because I’m in Italy, far from the U.S. But I was wrong. I cannot run from the conflicting feelings inside of me. Miles cannot separate me from the reality of being a woman who is a veteran of the U.S. military. Years of therapy have not made the annual angst