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Lori Piestewa was an American soldier who served in the United States Army. She was born on December 14, 1979, in Tuba City, Arizona. She was the first Native American woman to die in combat while serving in the U.S. military. Piestewa was a member of the Hopi tribe and was raised in Tuba City. She attended Tuba City High School and graduated in 1998. She then joined the U.S. Army in 2001 and was assigned to the 507th Maintenance Company. In 2003, Piestewa was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. On March 23, 2003, her convoy was ambushed near Nasiriyah. Piestewa was killed in the attack, along with seven other members of her unit. She was posthumously promoted to the rank of corporal. Piestewa was 24 years old at the time of her death. She was survived by her two children, Brandon and Carla, and her parents, Percy and Terry Piestewa. She was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona in Phoenix. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Defense named a mountain in Arizona after Piestewa. The mountain, located in the White Tank Mountains, is now known as Piestewa Peak. In 2008, the Arizona Department of Transportation dedicated a stretch of Interstate 17 in Phoenix as the Lori Piestewa Memorial Highway.

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Age 24 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 14 December 1979
Birthday 14 December
Birthplace Tuba City, Arizona, United States
Date of death March 23, 2003,
Died Place Nasiriyah, Dhi Qar, Iraq
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Bill Whiterock (m. 1997–2002)

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2018

In 2018, Piestewa became one of the inductees in the first induction ceremony held by the National Native American Hall of Fame.

2014

As Piestewa came under "a torrent of fire" (in the words of an Army investigation of the battle) she drove at high speed, evading enemy fire until a rocket-propelled grenade hit her Humvee. The explosion sent her vehicle into the rear of a disabled tractor-trailer. Piestewa, Johnson, and Lynch all survived the crash with injuries, while three other soldiers in the Humvee died. They were taken prisoner along with four others, with Piestewa dying of her wounds soon after. A video of some of the American prisoners of war, including Piestewa (filmed shortly before she died in an Iraqi hospital), was later shown around the world on Al Jazeera television. According to Jessica Lynch's book—I'm a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story—Piestewa was wounded in the head, and it was impossible to perform delicate neurosurgery in an Iraqi civilian hospital in wartime conditions (due to limitations such as intermittent electric power).

2008

Lynch has repeatedly stated that Piestewa was the true heroine of the ambush and named her daughter Dakota Ann in honor of her fallen comrade. In addition, many entities have honored her memory with memorials. Arizona's state government renamed Squaw Peak in the Phoenix Mountains near Phoenix as Piestewa Peak and this was codified by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names on April 10, 2008; the freeway that passes near this mountain was also renamed in her honor. In addition, Senator Tom Daschle honored her, as did Indian Nations across the United States. Since her death, the Grand Canyon State Games organizers have held an annual Lori Piestewa National Native American Games, which brings participants from across the country. A plaque bearing her name is also located at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and Fort Bliss, Texas. She has also been memorialized with a plaque and ceremony at Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in La Jolla, California. On November 10, 2011, American Legion Post No. 80 on the Hopi Reservation was renamed the Lori Piestewa Post # 80. On November 30, 2011, the Directorate of Training Sustainment headquarters at Fort Benning, Georgia was named Piestewa Hall in her honor.

2005

In May 2005, Piestewa's parents and children had a brand-new home built by Ty Pennington and his crew on ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition accompanied by Jessica Lynch. They also built a new veterans' center on the Navajo reservation.

2003

Piestewa was a member of the US Army's 507th Maintenance Company, a support unit of maintenance and repair personnel. Her company was traveling in a convoy through the desert and was meant to bypass Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq, during the opening days of the war; but the convoy got lost and ran into an ambush in Nasiriyah on March 23, 2003.

1979

Lori Ann Piestewa (/p aɪ ˈ ɛ s t ə w ɑː / py-ES -tə-wah; December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003) was a United States Army soldier killed during the Iraq War. A member of the Quartermaster Corps, she died in the same Iraqi attack in which fellow soldiers Shoshana Johnson and Jessica Lynch were injured. A member of the Hopi tribe, Piestewa was the first Native American woman in history to die in combat while serving in the U.S. military and the first woman in the U.S. military killed in the Iraq War. Arizona's Piestewa Peak is named in her honor.

1965

The Piestewa family had a long military tradition; her paternal grandfather served in the U.S. Army in the European Theatre of World War II, and her father Terry Piestewa was drafted in the U.S. Army in September 1965 and served a tour of duty in the Vietnam War before he returned home in March 1967.

1964

Piestewa was born in Tuba City, Arizona, to Terry Piestewa and Priscilla "Percy" Baca. Her father is Hopi Native American and her mother is Mexican-American. The couple first met in 1964 and married in November 1968.

1950

The families of soldiers in the 507th heard almost right away of the ambush and fatalities in the unit. The Piestewa family saw people in her unit being interviewed by Iraqi TV, and for more than a week families of the two women waited for news. All around Tuba City signs were hung out telling people: "Put your porch light on, show Lori the way home." They used white stone to spell her name on a 200 foot high mesa just outside the town.