LEIGH HESTER

SIZE: Lifesize

MEDIUM: Bronze

FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA, OKALOOSA VETERANS PARK

BRAVERY is the theme of this sculpture.

A United States Army National Guard soldier. While assigned to the 617th Military Police Company, a Kentucky Army National Guard unit out of Richmond, Kentucky, Hester received the Silver Star for her heroic actions on 20 March 2005 during an enemy ambush on a supply convoy near the town of Salman Pak, Iraq.

Hester is the first female U.S. Army soldier to receive the Silver Star since World War II and the first ever to be cited for valor in close quarters combat.

LEIGH HESTER

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