[donna]

So you think putting German women in military uniforms and sending them into combat with Americans would have won WWII for the Nazis?

Because we are not talking about women working in factories.

[Nepeta]

So you think putting German women in military uniforms and sending them into combat with Americans would have won WWII for the Nazis?

Because we are not talking about women working in factories.

I stated bluntly before that I do not think women belong in combat. That said, they do not belong home not contributing to a war. Some of those roles--in medicine, for example, can take them close enough to fighting to put them at risk. The industrial parts of Germany were pounded by bombing during WW2, sometimes with few structures left undamaged--working at a factory job need not be risk-free.

I've known women who could not have handled the aftermath of bombing or dealing with maimed casualties--but I've known a lot of squeamish men, too, who couldn't stand to get dirt on their hands. I've known sissy boys who wanted to stay in an air-conditioned car rather than inspect the tanks outside the Patton Museum (God help us).