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That's up to the bureaucrats to decide. I will follow the guidance I'm given.

You mean, you have no personal position? What will you say to parents who have raised their children under very certain and specific biblical convictions regarding the home and family, and the distinction in roles, and the importance of the woman in the home?

I have read LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU, YOUNG AND FEMALE IN THE U.S. ARMY, by Kayla Williams, a former female Army enlisted soldier, who recently served in Iraq during Operation Enduring Freedom (e.g since 2002). (New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005). I have taken careful notes. I served 6-1/2 years in the U.S. Air Force and was an NCO in Charge of a Civil Engineering structural section where females served. I saw the females on the flight lines and in the (male) barracks.

We have four daughters. One is weapons trained. I will train the others as they get old enough. Although they are being taught to love their country, and to be willing to die for it, they will NOT ever be inducted into the U.S. Military and be exposed to the disgusting disrespect for womanhood and Christian morality that exists therein.

We keep enough contact with people in our districts congressional office to know that a military draft (the pros and cons)is a regular topic of discussion in the halls of Congress, and added to this discussion nowadays is the element of "What about females...if we do 'awaken' a draft?" Any of us would be very foolish to think that there are not those in high places in these United States who want the further social experimentation that would be forced by a draft of women.

Letters from our elected Representatives state only that "last year we voted against a draft," and the answer is with an elitist attitude, and perhaps with them thinking that we are so stupid to think that they couldn't re-institute a draft this year or the next. What they voted against last year, they might approve this year, or next. Never do they state any moral position on the matter---just that they haven't voted to reinstate a draft...YET. And they (Congressman and Senators)all but refuse to answer our questions in writing with regard to women in the military.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of parents who are prepared to resist the calling-up of our daughters. We are PATRIOTS. What kind of nation is this that we are willing to die for when it sends its MOTHERS WITH CHILDREN into combat zones, which we certainly do now in Iraq.