Whereas, as of November 2020, of 1,255 health care facilities of the Department of Veterans of Affairs, 13 are named for members of minority groups and one is named for a woman; Whereas millions of women and members of minority groups have served in the Armed Forces of the United States since the founding of the Nation; Whereas, during the Revolutionary War, Margaret Corbin and Deborah Sampson were among the first women to serve in combat, and women served in other roles, including a woman who served as Agent 355 in George Washington’s spy ring; Whereas, during the Civil War, hundreds of women disguised themselves as men to serve in the military, and others served as nurses, spies, and administrators; Whereas Harriet Tubman became the first American woman known to lead troops in combat; Whereas for her service during the Civil War, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker became the first and only woman to receive the Medal of Honor; Whereas women have been formally part of the Armed Forces since the founding of the Army Nurse Corps in 1901 and the Navy Nurse Corps in 1908; Whereas many of the Nation’s heroes have been denied awards and recognition for their service due to systematic racial discrimination and anti-Semitism; Whereas Crispus Attucks was the first American to be killed in the Boston Massacre, which laid the foundation of American independence and freedom; Whereas Black servicemembers volunteered to participate and fight in every major war that America has engaged in, since the Revolutionary War, despite a legacy of slavery, segregated units, the Jim Crow era, discriminatory voting statutes, job restrictions, and the denial of benefits related to their service; Whereas the first African-American pilots in the United States Air Force, often referred to as the Tuskegee Airmen, destroyed over 250 German aircraft and destroyed over 950 supply vehicles in World War II