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To: F16Fighter

I agree. My point is that the post stated women do not belong in the military and went on to blame Bush and Clinton. That statement simply is flawed on it's face as women and men both being in the military has not historically been an issue, and Bush and Clinton had nothing to do with it's implementation and would be unable to reverse it.


100 posted on 05/14/2004 10:00:41 AM PDT by sharktrager (The greatest strength of our Republic is that the people get the government they deserve.)
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To: sharktrager

"That statement simply is flawed on it's face as women and men both being in the military has not historically been an issue"

It has always been an issue. If you think the relatively small numbers of women who served in WWII created a situation anything like today's, you need to read some history.

Their roles were restricted and they were carefully segregated.

Even so, things happened. My mother's first husband got blown up by a mine, fell in love with his nurse, and divorced my mother--who was Catholic. I think that had something to do with her falling away from the Church, but she never talked about that very much.

Any time you put men and women together in a situation like that, you're going to get immoral behavior. My first experience with that sort of thing was at Office Candidate School in 1980. The men and women were on the same floors, next door to each other. Just in my company there were several divorces and one heck of a lot of humpty-hump. No effort was made by anybody to discourage it.


209 posted on 05/17/2004 6:07:06 PM PDT by dsc (The Crusades were the first wars on terrorism.)
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