Angel in Fatigues

President Trump called Ruby Bradley a “loser” for being captured. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DOGE ordered her service history to be deleted from the Department of Defense archives because she was “DEI” and “woke.”

Ruby Bradley was serving as an Amy nurse in the Philippines when she was taken prisoner just weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Ruby was sent to the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manilla, where she provided medical attention to other prisoners and smuggled food to those who needed it.

She became known as an "Angel in Fatigues.” By the time the camp was liberated in February of 1945, she weighed only 81 pounds, having given most of her daily rations to the children in the camp.

After the war, Bradley continued her career in the Army, serving in a MASH unit in Korea and eventually being promoted to the rank of Colonel before retiring in 1963.

Throughout her career, Ruby Bradley received a total of 34 medals, decorations, and awards, including the Bronze Star, making her one of the most decorated women in US history. Ruby Bradley lived to be 94, and now rests at Arlington National Cemetery. Her story and sacrifice deserves recognition, remembrance and respect—all completely foreign concepts to Donald Trump and his administration.