As Miss America crowns an active Air Force officer, conservatives rejoice, signaling a significant shift from previous complaints of the “wokest” pageant in history.
As the winner of the esteemed yearly competition, Madison Marsh, an active duty officer and graduate of the Air Force Academy, created history on Sunday night in Orlando, Florida. She accomplished a historic first by becoming the first Miss America to be a member of the active military.
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Marsh’s political position may have made more apparent to viewers with her answer to the question “what is a woman?”, enhancing her already outstanding record of patriotism.
“You know, serving to me – being a woman in the military is all what you make of it. And for me that’s been being able to do both – that means representing my mom who I lost to pancreatic cancer and living through her life, because I get to live even though she doesn’t.”
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In an interview with Fox News, Marsh, Miss Colorado, expressed her desire to serve the nation on her own terms prior to being named the winner.
“I started flying around 15, that’s whenever I kind of fell in love with the Air Force Academy and the idea of serving. And so I walk through what that flight looks like and some of the things that went wrong and how they relate to me today as a leader and an officer, and kind of how that goes into pageantry as well,” Marsh told “Fox & Friends” Sunday night.
“In the military, it’s an open space to really lead in the way that you want to lead — in and out of uniform. I felt like pageants, and specifically winning Miss Colorado, was a way to truly exemplify that and to set the tone to help make other people feel more comfortable finding what means most to them,” she told the New York Post in a previous interview.
Marsh has passions outside beauty pageants and country music, even though she loves both of these things. She is currently assiduously working on a master’s degree in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
“Towards the end of my time at USAFA, I started to realize that my bigger passions were in policy-making and cancer research, so that’s why I ended up at the Kennedy School.” She continued, “I’m now trying to take the next step and use my studies from the Kennedy School to learn about the inner workings and the difficulties of what policy really looks like… Issues like economic environments and other social pressures that might be inhibiting our ability to implement cancer policies that can affect all Americans.”
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Following their hearts, young contenders of future, is what Marsh advised in an Instagram post on the Miss America account. “You can achieve anything. The sky is not the limit and the only person that’s stopping you is you,” said said.
Soon after her triumph, the official USAF account on X joined in the festivities by sharing a congrats message.
“Congratulations to our very own #Airman, 2nd Lt. Madison Marsh, aka Miss Colorado — who was just crowned
@MissAmerica 2024!”
The “wokest” Miss America pageant ever, with a diverse field of competitors including the first-ever transgender contestant, was criticized by the New York Post in 2021. Kataluna Enriquez, 27, was named Miss Nevada on her route to the national stage, despite not winning that year.
“Don’t let your differences determine what you’re capable of. Your differences is anything that makes you unique, and you are capable of anything as long as you believe in yourself,” said Enriquez at the moment.
