Air Force Reservist Senior Airman Diane Lopes (center) poses with Chief of the Air Force Reserve Command, Lt. Gen. John A. Bradley (right of Airman Lopes) and 920th Rescue Wing senior leadership, after receiving the Purple Heart bedside. General Bradley presented the medal Sept. 28 to Airman Lopes in her hospital room at Walter Reed Army Medical Facility in Maryland. Airman Lopes is a security forces apprentice with the 920th RQW, Patrick AFB, Fla. She is rehabilitating after being wounded during a mortar attack at Kirkuk AB, Iraq Sept. 21. Airman Lopes was only the fifth woman in the history of the Air Force Reserve to receive a Purple Heart. However, her reaction after receiving the honor was in perspective to her fate. "I'm just happy I was here for that ceremony," she said. (U.S. Army Photo/Winston S. Wilson)
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