[JudyB1938]

Gender doesn't always identify strength and courage. When I was young, I was tough. I could overpower many a guy. No, I am not "masculine". I just grew up as a tomboy, which I think Jessica did, too.

HOWEVER ...

I felt then as I do now ... women do not belong in combat!

(And, yes, RAPE is one of the main issues for me.)

Thank goodness, most of our young girls have the sense not to enlist. But I really do believe that few of them who did ever thought they'd actually go to war. Just like many of the male enlistees, they were often merely after an education to improve their earning power.

Well, they are getting an "extra-curricular" education, you might say. The experience will tighten their spirits and resolve. Most of them will make excellent employees and business owners some day who know the true meaning of SACRIFICE and LOVE FOR AMERICA.

May God bless all of them and bring them home safe! Amen.

[I_dmc]

hmm, rape. I wonder, is it inherently worse for men or women to be raped by captors? Surely we don't pretend that male POW's are not subject to this humiliation.