Posted on 04/03/2003 3:03:29 AM PST by kattracks
I absolutely give honored credit to any woman serving as a support to the armed forces so that warriors are released from same to fight. That tradition has a long and illustrious history in our country, you know.
In my opinion, this woman was placed much too close to the front and was pressed into a situation she didn't sign up for, unlike the sniviling coward Funk, who did sign up for exactly that. She went through it; he didn't, so the honor is indeed hers.
You can thank Bubba for the travails this young woman went through. I do not in any way condone this policy, nor do I condone her use as an icon by the socialists and feminist for a practice that defies natural law well known for thousands of years and the weakening of social fabric and structure such practices accomplish.
Please don't assume that because I reject the notion of women in dangerous jobs, I don't have respect for women. I'd say that those who put women in danger when there is not need themselves have no respect for women, individually or severally.
Thank you for saying that.
I also see a whole lot of what seems like resentment that maybe the only reason she survived is because she is young and pretty. That how dare she make the Special Ops have to risk their lives for her(as if they wouldn't have risked their lives for a male soldier).
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Dolt? Did I call you names? Please try to maintain some decorum in debate. It doesn't serve your position by throwing a fit on the floor.
Women can shoot a firearm. Women can definitly sustain bodily injury. The question is why should they when there are millions of healthy, strong young men not even in the military. And, as I said before and you didn't reference, the wounded lion fighting comes from a unidentified and vague statement from source who benefits from any advancement of the socialist agenda.
Maybe she did; maybe she didn't. The fate of a captured woman is much worse than a captured man. But I'll see the evidence before I judge. You can buy a pig in a poke if you want. That's your business. Just don't insist that I do because you're a socialist and want me to be one, too.
From the comfort of your chair by a computer, you choose (along with a few other troglodytes) to crap all over a life that should be celebrated. You have succeeded in doing something that few people can - and that is to make me sick.
"From the comfort of your chair by a computer", now but from a '66 tour of duty in a combat zone as a Marine, then. Do you have any experience in cambat, or the armed services?
I don't doubt that I make you sick. I try to make as many liberal as sick as I can.
Thank you.
Thanks for your Service.
I have no problem with Equal Rights for women. Why would I?
But, because of the animal nature of a human male in war zone environments, young girls of any age don't belong there. Not wearing a military uniform.
I'm afraid that the African-American woman soldier, whose anguished and terrified expression we all viewed last week during that horrendous video, was not so fortunate to be kept alive. They found her torn and shredded uniform near the torture rooms.
Now, why don't you just keep quiet before we both get in trouble around here. ;^)
Understood. USAF from '76-'88. And some of the best times I had were training with Marines. What a blast!
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